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John,
On the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I want to share with you why I so strongly advocate for women’s rights, especially the right to make decisions about their own bodies.
This battle didn’t start when corrupt justices overturned Roe in June 2022. For some of us, defending women has been and continues to be a lifelong fight. I’d say it’s been grilled into my character from the start.
I was raised by a tough mom who worked as hard as anyone I know. When I was two-and-a-half years old, she and my dad divorced. My brother Justin was 5. My sister Alana was only six months old.
My mom, Patty, was left with a bankrupt convenience store and us three kiddos. We survived on welfare, food stamps, WIC, and free meals at school.
Those support mechanisms allowed my mom to lift herself up, get her education and a nursing degree, and earn a commission in the U.S. Air Force!
Being raised by such a strong, selfless woman – and one who loved her country – taught my siblings and me a few things about family, life, and American values.
For starters, she instilled in us a responsibility to serve. You know by now that I served in the Marines, but did you know that my brother did, too? He joined as soon as he turned 18. I joined him as soon as I could, with my mom’s blessing, at age 17.
My mom also taught us how federal safety nets empower self-determination. John, my mom could not have put food on the table, raised us right, and made a future for herself without the help of those programs.
But Republicans like Lauren Boebert have spent years shaming, defunding, limiting access to, and driving Americans away from supporting the safety net that kept our family fed through hard times.
When SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade – and knowing how much less support mothers get today – I had to wonder ... Would my mom be able to accomplish what she did back then if she had to do it again today? Would she have been able to if she’d had another kid?
My mom’s story is unique to her, but no one can deny that mothers and women in this country still struggle financially. MOST Americans do, regardless of gender.
In a country like ours today, being forced to start a family you haven’t planned for and maybe can’t afford? That’s like someone cutting off our legs before telling us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
I knew the end of Roe not only threatened their right to an abortion, but their right to choose a path for the rest of their lives.
My mom fought for us, and she taught us to never quit fighting.
She instilled that lesson the year she was able to buy me a Matchbox car for Christmas, after years of being unable to afford gifts for her kids.
She instilled it on our annual trips to the Alabama state house to honor the civil rights movement, where she’d remind us that the fight was not over.
I remember that lesson every year I join the Women’s March here in Colorado.
It’s thanks to my mom that I was raised to spot inequity, to pursue higher education, to serve my country, to value every right and freedom, and to stand up to discrimination and oppression.
I have called CO-4 my home for a couple decades now, and I’ve made a name for myself as a guy who never gives up, never quits fighting.
That’s the path I’ve been on since childhood, and it’s led me to this run for Congress. You can support my campaign to take down anti-abortion extremist Lauren Boebert here: [link removed] ([link removed])
John, I will fight like Hell for the people in our community and across the country – to make my mom proud, to serve my country, and to someday live in a land that is truly “of the free.”
Approximately 27 million American women of reproductive age are living under abortion bans today. I will fight like Hell for them, too.
Republicans have weaponized legislation and made a battlefield of Congress, statehouses, and the courts. The Dobbs decision is just one example.
Send me to Congress, and we will meet them on that battlefield.
And we will win.
Semper fi,
Ike McCorkle
Combat Wounded
U.S. Marine Corps, Retired
Democratic Candidate for CO-04
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Ike McCorkle is a Purple Heart recipient, Marine Force Recon Veteran, and the 2022 Democratic nominee in Colorado's 4th Congressional District. Ike will fight for working class families and to restore the people's trust in American Government and leadership.
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