ACLU Supporter –

Yesterday, together with our partners, we filed lawsuits against three states – Ohio, Alabama, and Iowa – over their executive orders shutting down access to abortion care. Let's call this out for what it is: exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to stop people from getting abortions. We won't let that happen.

Abortion care is essential, time-sensitive health care – and the clinics that provide them must stay open. In fact, mere hours after filing our Ohio and Alabama lawsuits, judges issued an order allowing the clinics to continue providing abortion care in both states. That's a good sign, but we have a long fight ahead of us.

If you can, please support these urgent lawsuits with a donation right now. Today is the last day for your donation to be matched, dollar-for-dollar, so it'll go twice as far.

Clearly, some lawmakers will stop at nothing to push abortion care out of reach. Doing so is a violation of our rights at any time, but during a pandemic, the consequences are even more dire.

Pregnancies don't stop just because of a public health crisis. And preventing people from getting abortion care doesn't stop the need for pregnant people to see their doctors – nor does it help us fight this pandemic. It just forces people to stay pregnant – and have children – against their will.

Now more than ever, we should be taking care of our health and each other. Science and public health, not politics, must guide us.

So please, if you can, rush in your gift and help us protect people seeking an abortion during the pandemic. You have until midnight for your donation to be doubled.

It's only with the help of people like you that we can continue this lifesaving work.

Thanks for your support,

Jennifer Dalven
Director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project