James,

When I read Project 2025, one of the things that horrified me most was the plan to use the 151-year-old Comstock Act (which bans the mailing of obscene materials) to ban abortion nationwide.

The game plan is this: Claim abortion medication and medical supplies are obscene under the Comstock Act, thus banning them from being mailed. And not just to states with abortion bans but ANYWHERE in America.

Well, anti-choice politicians from Kansas, Missouri, and Idaho are now using that exact playbook to try to ban telemed abortion NATIONWIDE — but they're also hoping we don't notice.

You better believe I noticed. And I'm calling it out.

This is the same kind of sneak attack we can expect if anti-choice politicians like my opponent control Congress. It's why we HAVE to make sure we have a pro-choice majority.

Shockingly, there's never been a pro-choice OBGYN elected to Congress — I'd be the first. But I can only get there with your help. Will you rush $10 or more to my campaign right now?

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Here's what I find most concerning about this lawsuit:

1. It's filled with anti-choice misinformation. I won't repeat the claims here, but now that the Supreme Court has ruled judges — not government agencies — are subject-matter experts in lawsuits, all it takes is one anti-choice judge who doesn't care about the truth to validate these lies and ban medication abortion. (And that's exactly who is presiding over this case.) As an OBGYN who knows this medication is safe and effective, this horrifies me.
    
2. This would hurt patients in health care deserts, like the ones I work in, the most. I travel to rural Arizona and Minnesota on a regular basis to visit patients who have very few options for reproductive care, who otherwise have to travel hundreds of miles. This lawsuit would ban telemed abortions, which account for 1 in 5 abortions right now in America. Telemedicine is the main reason patients in states with abortion bans can still get safe abortion care. More women will die if this lawsuit succeeds.
    
3. This is all based on a law that was passed before women even had the right to vote. When an 1849 law banned abortion in Wisconsin, I joined a lawsuit to restore our reproductive freedom. And we won. So you better believe I refuse to let a 151-year-old law be the reason women and girls across America lose access to safe, reliable abortion care.
    
4. Anti-choice politicians are trying to hide it, because they know we'd hold them accountable at the ballot box. The attorneys general who filed this suit aren't crowing about it from the rooftops. And they went out of their way to NOT mention the Comstock Act, because it would most certainly get our attention. Sneak attacks on abortion like this need to be called out loudly, and that's exactly what I'm doing in this campaign and what I'll continue to do.

I'm running to protect our freedoms in the halls of Congress because politicians are making it impossible to do so in my exam room. With just 13 days left in the election, it's never been a better time to donate to my campaign >>

Thanks for being a part of this team,

Kristin Lyerly

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