The National Network of Abortion Funds is working to ensure safe, accessible abortions. Can you chip in to support their vital mission?

In a truly just America, everyone is free to make decisions about their lives, their bodies, and their futures with dignity — including the decision to pursue abortion care without fear, shame, or systemic barriers.

But that’s not the case in America today. In Ohio, a Black woman is being criminally charged with felony abuse of a corpse after experiencing a miscarriage:

After being told that her 22-week pregnancy was unviable, Brittany Watts was not able to have her labor induced over her doctors’ concerns about potential legal issues that could arise. Legal issues that exist because of the corrupt Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and coordinated, extremist Republican attacks on our reproductive health care in State Houses and courtrooms across the nation. So Brittany went home and miscarried there. Now, she is facing criminal charges. This is unconscionable and unacceptable.

Abortion care is health care and a fundamental human right, and we must continue to use every lever at our disposal to protect reproductive rights across this country. That means pushing back against any efforts to criminalize pregnancy outcomes and those seeking sexual and reproductive health care.

The truth is, the fall of Roe v. Wade has led to a rise in anti-abortion laws across the country that have had devastating impacts on how doctors are able to provide life-saving reproductive health care. As a result, we have seen emboldened efforts to disproportionately prosecute Black, brown, and low-income women, exacerbating many of the inequities and disparities that harm these communities.

That’s why I’ve been working in Congress on legislation like the Abortion Justice Act — which would protect patients and providers from criminalization and systematically expand access to care — and the Support Through Loss Act — which would provide those experiencing the loss of a pregnancy with access to the resources, workforce supports, and patient-centered care they need.

And that’s why it’s critical that we continue to support local abortion funds — organizations that are standing in the gap and helping people access life-saving reproductive health care. As we work in Congress to protect and expand access to abortion care, we can also fight back against these draconian abortion bans by supporting the National Network of Abortion Funds — a network of 100 independent abortion funds. This organization works to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access. And they are committed to ensuring the conversation about racial, economic, and reproductive justice includes the people most affected by the barriers to abortion access.

So today I’m asking: Can you split a donation between our campaign and the National Network of Abortion Funds to affirm abortion rights and reproductive justice for everyone, everywhere?

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Abortion care is health care and a fundamental human right, but access to this right has been stripped away from far too many. And pregnancy has become criminalized — especially for Black and brown people — as a result.

I know that a just America is possible, and I’ll never stop fighting to ensure our bodily autonomy is our own.

Yours in service,

Ayanna