This week marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which made abortion care a constitutional right. This anniversary falls in the midst of unprecedented Republican attacks on our reproductive freedom. And since Roe was overturned a year and a half ago, Republicans have stopped at nothing to attack our bodily autonomy.
Just last week, Republicans advanced two bills that mislead pregnant students seeking abortion care and divert federal funding towards sham, anti-abortion counseling centers known as “crisis pregnancy centers.” And they have the audacity to claim that these bills would help pregnant people.
But we won’t fall for the okey-doke.
This is just another tired tactic straight from their extremist playbook, and just another step in their politically violent, thinly-veiled campaign to enact a national abortion ban — a forced birth mandate.
We cannot and will not stand by while they use pregnant students as their pawns. This is an urgent moment that requires immediate action: We must advance critical legislation like the Women's Health Protection Act and Abortion Justice Act to codify Roe v. Wade and make abortion care readily available to all who seek it — without shame, stigma, or systemic barriers.
House Republicans intentionally designed their bills to mislead, with biased and inaccurate information, and to shame those who seek abortion care.
There is a clear contrast between our agenda and the Republicans’. As the Chair of the Abortion Rights and Access Task Force under our Pro-Choice Caucus, let me again set the record straight: abortion care is health care and a fundamental human right.
While we're fighting in Congress to actually protect pregnant people and abortion patients, Republicans are spreading dangerous lies and misinformation that would put them at risk. Their record is clear: Republicans have consistently undermined access to contraception, defunded on-campus childcare, and limited access to reproductive healthcare for those who need it most.
Yours in service,
Ayanna
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