Friend,

The last few weeks have shown us clear as day that, a year and a half after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion rights remain under attack. In Texas, the entire country watched in horror as a pregnant woman with a terminally ill fetus was forced by a group of judges to leave the state to terminate the pregnancy, in the hopes of going on to have children.

This week, after nearly a year of delays, GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville finally gave up his bid to stop all women serving in the military from being granted leave to travel for an abortion. He held up over 400 senior military confirmations AND virtually no Republicans said anything to defend the rights of servicewomen.

In D.C. last week, Republicans succeeded in taking a case to the SCOTUS to ban the mailing of Mifepristone across state lines, a safe and legal drug that has been widely used for over two decades for women having miscarriages, D&Cs, medically necessary terminations and abortions. This case could ban the mailing of the drug even to blue states, making it extremely difficult to get an abortion, even where it’s legal. For the 1 in 4 women who miscarry, this is the most common way to safely get them through the process.

These salami tactics put in plain view what we have already known: For Republicans, it was never just about Roe. If this Republican party is allowed to take the White House and the Senate, they will try to ban abortion from every angle at the federal level. They will not stop when states like Michigan and Kansas and California and Kentucky and Ohio organize and vote to codify protections for women. Sure, they might change their talking points to make it sound like they support access to abortion, but it’s a deception: They want an abortion ban, and they will simply bend to the will of the extremists of their party and vote for it.

Here in Michigan, all four of the serious Republican candidates in this race have proven extreme positions on abortion:

• Former Congressman Mike Rogers repeatedly voted for an abortion ban even in the cases of rape, incest, and common miscarriage. He now claims he wouldn’t oppose abortion in Michigan, but his actions are a lot louder than his (now) words.
• Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig opposes all abortion, including for victims of rape and incest. In his last campaign, he confirmed that he would work to keep Michigan’s 1931 abortion ban.
• Former Congressman Peter Meijer has campaigned on being “100% pro-life” even in cases of rape or incest, and supported a federal ban on abortion – until he realized he wanted to be elected statewide.
• Businessman Sandy Pensler says he is “a pro-life conservative”; called Roe v. Wade a “terrible decision,” and claimed that Prop 3 in Michigan, which protected the right to choose in Michigan’s Constitution, “went too far.”

We’ll be frank: Our best line of defense against these attacks on reproductive healthcare at the federal level is to ensure Democrats maintain control of the White House and the Senate – and to elect Senators who will vote to end the filibuster as we know it so we can codify Roe into federal law, as we’ve done in the House.

But public polling has made it clear that the path to do so will hinge on what happens right here in Michigan. With both our race for Senate and the Presidential race at a statistical dead-heat, we can’t take anything for granted. That’s why we’re asking: Will you chip in $3 now to help push back on attacks on choice, keep Michigan blue, and send Elissa to the U.S. Senate?

Thank you,

Team Slotkin

PAID FOR BY ELISSA SLOTKIN FOR MICHIGAN

P.O. Box 4145
East Lansing, MI 48826

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Elissa Slotkin served in the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. Use of her job titles and photographs during service do not imply endorsement by the Central Intelligence Agency OR the Department of Defense.