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Friend —

Planned Parenthood Action Fund just endorsed our campaign for Congress — and I wanted to share why this is especially meaningful for me.

Before I ran for office, I worked for Planned Parenthood, traveling all over the country to raise funds to protect health care access for millions of Americans.

Every day, far from the spotlight, the professionals at Planned Parenthood improve, transform, and save lives. I can confidently say that working for them changed my life.

I saw that in so many areas of this country, Planned Parenthood clinics are one of the only sources of affordable health care — and not just abortion care. They are a critical lifeline to poor people, queer and trans folks, communities of color, and those living in isolated rural communities.

I met women, men, and people of all genders whose lives were tangibly changed because they could receive care at Planned Parenthood. They got screenings that caught cancer early enough to treat. They got reliable information about prenatal care, postpartum depression, STIs, and birth control they couldn’t find elsewhere.

And, yes, they made informed decisions about their pregnancies, their bodies, and their futures without interference from any judge, protestor, or politician.

I also saw the unnecessary and cruel barriers to care in Republican-controlled states. In states that didn’t expand Medicaid, the need for affordable care at clinics was (and still is) overwhelming. While not lifting a finger to improve healthcare access, right-wing politicians used Planned Parenthood clinics and their staffs as scapegoats and political punching bags. Before the Dobbs decision, when they couldn’t ban abortion outright, they piled regulation after regulation on clinics that made operating nearly impossible, forcing many to close.

When Trump was elected, I couldn’t stop thinking about the real, terrifying impact that he would have — on Roe v. Wade , on women’s rights and LGBTQ+ freedom, and on the people I’d met around the country seeking safe, affordable, lifesaving care.

On the same night that they called the 2016 election for Trump, I decided to run for office in Washington state. Because of supporters like you, I went to Olympia as part of a pro-choice majority in both the House and Senate:

• We’ve made birth control more available and accessible.

• We stockpiled mifepristone to ensure Washington residents have access to the safest and most effective medication abortion protocol.

• We required all insurance plans that cover maternity care to also cover abortion and ensured that trans folks have equal access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare.

• We removed financial barriers by ending abortion cost-sharing.

• We enacted meaningful data privacy and shield legislation — to protect trans folks seeking gender-affirming care in Washington state and individuals seeking abortion here from persecution or prosecution in their home states.

• And just last week, we passed the Keep Our Care Act off the Senate floor, a meaningful step to protect reproductive health care (and the Washingtonians counting on it) from unchecked consolidation in the health care sector.

We’ve been leaders in this Washington – and I’ll continue this work in Congress, where I’ll do everything in my power to protect our reproductive freedom in places like Washington state and restore it wherever we can. We also need to expand Medicaid, repeal the Hyde Amendment, support rural hospitals, and so much more.

I wouldn’t be where I am today without Planned Parenthood, and I’m proud that I have the support of Planned Parenthood Action Fund (and you!) in my campaign for Washington’s 6th Congressional District.

Thank you so much,

— Emily

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