John,

Republican attacks on reproductive choice are ramping up, and this week, the issue is headed to the Supreme Court.

Yesterday, SCOTUS began hearing oral arguments in a controversial case that could allow Louisiana to require doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals -- a law that would leave the state with just one single abortion provider, effectively making abortion inaccessible for Louisianans.

If enacted, this kind of state law completely undermines the legal right to an abortion guaranteed in the Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark case Roe v. Wade, because if abortion is simply inaccessible, then it really doesn’t matter whether it’s legal.

This is the first time Trump’s conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh will get to decide a case on the issue while on the nation’s highest bench, and based on Kavanaugh’s questioning yesterday, it already sounds like he’s leaning toward letting this attack on reproductive choice move forward.

But it’s not too late. As the Supreme Court continues to hear arguments and consider the legality of this Republican-led attack on abortion access, we must rise up and show the Court, the GOP, and conservative state governments that most Americans believe abortion is health care.

If you’re sick and tired of these attacks on choice, add your name to our petition now to make it clear that the public believes abortion is a right and we demand it be protected.

Together, let’s unite and show conservatives that Roe v. Wade isn’t going anywhere,

--Yvette

Yvette Simpson, CEO
Democracy for America