<[link removed]>Friend,
Two years ago today, the hyper-conservative supermajority occupying the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
The Dobbs decision marked the first time a civil right established by a prior court ruling and upheld by legal precedent for nearly 50 years was erased by a subsequent SCOTUS ruling. It’s an ominous sign of what’s to come if we do not reign in this rogue court.
I practiced internal medicine for 25 years. I remember the terrifying days before Roe. I remember watching close friends endure the horrors of back alley abortions.
Since Dobbs, maternal mortality has shot up at least 24% – nearly 40% among Black mothers. And it’s going to get worse as more bans take effect.
At least 40% of American women and people who can get pregnant of childbearing age live in a state where abortion access has been severely restricted since Dobbs. Countless have had life-threatening pregnancy complications and been refused emergency care. Incidents of rape-related pregnancy have dramatically increased, with one study published by JAMA Internal Medicine finding 65,000 rape-related pregnancies in just 14 states with harsh abortion restrictions in the first 18 months after Dobbs.
Abortions will always be available to people wealthy enough to travel to jurisdictions where it remains legal. The simple fact is that abortion bans make women less safe, and make it more likely that women and children will get trapped in cycles of generational poverty.
We should be furious about all of that.
Yes, we should be furious with right-wing state legislatures that push radical abortion bans and the far-right governors and courts that put them into practice.
But we should be equally if not more outraged by decades of empty rhetoric from Democrats. Their calculated inaction is no less a betrayal to women than the extreme right-wing lawmakers pushing these barbaric abortion bans.
Lest we forget, in the 51 years since Roe was first decided, Democrats controlled Congress nearly HALF of that time.
Every single Democratic president since Roe held a trifecta (controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House) at some point in their presidency.
With his trifecta in 2021-2022, Joe Biden could have guaranteed abortion rights before OR after Dobbs. He didn’t.
Never once in 51 years have Democrats made a serious effort to codify the right to an abortion into federal law. But they did raise BILLIONS of dollars from ordinary Americans who entrusted them to fight for us.
This is not a fundraising issue to me. This is personal. As a doctor I know all too well that pregnancy itself is often a life-threatening condition. As an activist and a mother, I believe fiercely that no one should ever be forced to remain pregnant.
As your president, I will leverage every tool at my disposal to safeguard our human rights and secure your right to healthcare – including abortion care. <[link removed]>
<[link removed]>DONATE <[link removed]>Abortion is on the ballot this year, and we should rightly question the willingness of Democrats to secure that right after squandering – intentionally or incompetently – every opportunity to do so in the last five decades.
Access to safe abortion is a non-negotiable human right. It is healthcare, and like all healthcare it should be guaranteed and freely available for anyone who needs it.
When I am president, it will be.
In solidarity and gratitude,
Jill
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