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Today is International Women’s Day, and March is Women’s History Month — a
time for us to reflect and keep up the fight for women’s rights
everywhere.

Though we’ve made advancements to women’s health care and civil rights
throughout history, we’re currently witnessing the harmful impacts of the
Supreme Court’s decision to roll back nearly 50 years of legal precedent
when they overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

This dangerous decision by the majority-conservative court erased the
federal right to abortion, immediately limiting access to abortion and
other reproductive care in nearly half of states in the U.S. Since then,
more GOP-controlled state legislatures and courts have attacked
reproductive care for women and other child-bearing people through extreme
abortion bans, threats to defund or shut down health clinics, and even
attempts to limit in vitro fertilization (IVF) and contraception.

While Medicare for All would not codify Roe into law, it would guarantee
abortion as a service in states where it’s legal. Under Medicare for All,
the cost of abortion care would be covered free at the point of service,
and as current House and Senate legislation is written, it would prohibit
the Hyde Amendment (which restricts federal funds from being spent on
abortion) from applying to Medicare for All funds. Passing Medicare for
All would allow abortion to be included as part of guaranteed,
comprehensive health care for all people under the program.

Abortion IS health care. We still have so much work left to do to restore
full reproductive rights across the country, and Medicare for All would go
a long way toward ensuring women, and all people, have the guaranteed,
quality health care we deserve.

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Nurses will continue to act in solidarity with our coworkers, our
patients, and our communities to defend the human rights that workers have
fought for and won over centuries of struggle in the United States.

We hope you’ll join us in fighting for a future where abortion care is not
only legal, but the cost is covered and guaranteed under Medicare for All.

In solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All



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