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Friend —
We're in it now. Yesterday's Super Tuesday proved that prochoice voters are mobilized, which is critical because the attack on reproductive freedom right now is at a fever pitch.
Photo Credit: ACLU of Iowa
This week, there's good news, there's bad news, and there's an opportunity:
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1. The Good News: The #VOTEPROCHOICE Voter Guide rocked Texas!
Yesterday was a huge day for our endorsed candidates in Texas, as our prochoice candidates are heading to the general!
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#VOTEPROCHOICE endorsed candidates like Gina Ortiz Jones championed reproductive freedom in Texas, and now she and 22 other #VOTEPROCHOICE candidates are advancing past Super Tuesday!
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We're so proud of the momentum among prochoice voters across the country, but *especially* in places like Texas!
Normally, only 15% of voters fill out their entire ballot, but on our voter guide, voters clicked through every office, compared candidates at every level, and explored recommendations in every race on their ballot.
Our 2020 #VOTEPROCHOICE Texas Primary Voter Guide went to nearly 200,000 voters and incorporated endorsements from 20 progressive partner organizations.
Don't forget: Ask your people to sign up for the 2020 General Election Voter Guide! We'll send full ballot previews to everyone, including recommendations in every single race.
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2. The Bad News: Our conservative Supreme Court is attempting to dismantle reproductive freedom, like we knew they would.
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TODAY, we're standing outside the Supreme Court with our partners NARAL Pro-choice America, Center for Reproductive Rights, Demand Justice, Women's March, AbortionAF and more because anti-choice Justices are putting their *extremely* unpopular agenda ahead of our reproductive freedom.
When SCOTUS hears June Medical Services v. Russo, they're reviewing a Louisiana law that's nearly identical to a Texas law declared unconstitutional in 2016. Both cases tried to require that any physician providing abortion services needs admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic. This is an arbitrary restriction meant to cut access to reproductive freedom, and the 2016 case should have permanently set a precedent that this restriction is unconstitutional.
This case is an example of the anti-choice and GOP disinformation machine, working to pass laws for the sole purposes of getting to the Supreme Court, led by anti-choice extremists like Brett Kavanaugh.
Whether by inconveniencing patients with laws like waiting periods that force abortion-seekers to come back days later (double the travel, potential child care, potential days off work), or by inconveniencing the providers with laws like the one at the center of June Medical, the constitutional right to abortion is worthless if it's inaccessible, which has been the anti-choice strategy for the last 30 years.
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3. The Opportunity: We are a prochoice nation. We're the majority
2018 was the beginning of our wave, but 2020 is the year that we take it to every corner and office in this country!
We're already seeing our efforts pay off in places like Virginia, where both houses of government voted to repeal reproductive healthcare restrictions. This advancement is only possible because our prochoice candidates and voters show up!
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We're working to send every prochoice voter a 2020 #VOTEPROCHOICE General Election Voter Guide with endorsements and candidates in every single race across the country.
Do you know an amazing prochoice candidate running for office? Ask them to apply for an endorsement!
Thank you for being a prochoice champion.
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In solidarity,
Heidi L. Sieck
#VOTEPROCHOICE
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