James,

This week – in the wake of stories of women in Georgia who died as a direct result of the state’s abortion ban – ProPublica broke the story of Josseli Barnica, a 28-year-old mother in Texas who died after being told it would be a “crime” for the hospital she went to to intervene in her miscarriage.

Josseli spent forty hours waiting, in danger of infection, until doctors felt it was legally safe for them to intervene. Forty hours mourning a pregnancy that couldn’t continue, while hoping she would make it home to her husband and daughter. Three days after she delivered, she died of sepsis.

I have seen cases like this, where patients are losing wanted pregnancies. They are heartbreaking. And there is absolutely no question what should have been done in that situation. Josseli needed immediate treatment, treatment that her doctors did not provide because of Texas’s abortion ban.

It makes me sick. And furious.

This is the agenda that anti-choice extremists want to take nationwide, and the one that my opponent would let states implement everywhere, including in Wisconsin. It could have happened in Wisconsin during the time when we had an abortion ban from 1849 – before the Civil War – on the books, before I challenged it and we restored reproductive rights here in Wisconsin.
  When I advocate for national action to protect reproductive health care at the federal level, this is why. We cannot leave this to the states.
When politicians started messing with my patient care, I decided to start messing with politics. Now, we’re just two days away from Election Day. It’s our last chance to reach voters and make a difference in this race.

Please, join me in fighting for an end to these travesties. If you can, I hope you’ll chip in to my campaign so I can fight for my patients – and everyone – in Congress.