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John,
It may seem hard to believe, but the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is actually trying to take away your birth control.
They’ve already won the Dobbs decision, convincing the Supreme Court that Americans have no right to reproductive freedom. And they’ve already managed to have all use of the drug Mifepristone suspended, convincing the courts to declare it “unproven” despite its 25 years of successful use to assist women in abortions and miscarriages.
Now Alan Sears, the group’s CEO, shows his cards, saying, “We are on a winning trajectory. It may be that the day will come when people say the birth-control pill was a mistake.” By “people,” he means extreme right-wing judges who will be happy to take away your rights.
It seems unthinkable that Americans could lose the right and the freedom to choose if, when, and how to have a family -- and yet, this is their stated goal.
We cannot allow such a fundamental right and responsibility to be taken away! Overreaching extremists must not be allowed to control our most intimate behaviors. Sign the petition today to stop the right wing assault on birth control!
ADF, which grossed over $100 million in 2022, makes no effort to conceal its far-right Christian legal agenda. Their Senior Vice President, Jeffrey Ventrella, boasts that the group recognizes no separation between church and state. Rather, the state is to be held subordinate to the church, as he says: “To ask Christianity to stay out of certain territory is to ask God not to be God.”
The ADF has already won 15 cases before the Supreme Court, successfully arguing for a baker not to make a cake and a web-designer not to design a web page for same-sex weddings, and for employers to exclude birth control from their sponsored health plans.
ADF has worked its way into the federal courts and legislature. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett taught several ADF-sponsored lectures. Clerks for justices Barrett and Samuel Alito graduated from ADF’s training program. Congressmen Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise hosted a congressional reception for ADF, and Senator Josh Hawley has served as legal counsel and lecturer for ADF.
In short, given ADF’s inroads into the corridors of power, arguments similar to the ones that sidelined Mifepristone could be weaponized against birth control pills as well.
Access to birth control is a practical and moral necessity for anyone who might bear a child. It affects the health, economic stability, and range of opportunities available for millions of Americans. For one group to seek to impose their religious beliefs and extremist viewpoints concerning the most personal of behaviors on the vast majority of fellow citizens whose beliefs differ so substantially, is antithetical to democracy and to the even-handed functioning of society.
Defend our basic freedom and responsibility to choose when and if to have children. Sign the petition: Stop the assault on access to birth control now!
Thank you for standing up for our right to manage our own bodies and families.
- Amanda
Amanda Ford, Director
Democracy for America
Advocacy Fund
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