[1]Ayanna Pressley
Earlier this month, I was deeply disappointed to see the racist,
discriminatory Hyde Amendment included in the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY2021)
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill that
was put before the House of Representatives.
For more than four decades, the Hyde Amendment has denied access to
abortion care for low-income folxs who receive health insurance coverage
through Medicaid — a burden that falls disproportionately on Black, Brown,
and indigenous womxn. That’s why I, along with my sisters-in-service
Congresswomen Barbara Lee, Jan Schakowsky and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
filed an amendment to finally repeal the Hyde Amendment.
In this moment of profound national reckoning, Congress must guarantee
reproductive autonomy as a right for all people. I need you to take
action to join me in the
fight to abolish the Hyde Amendment.
[ [link removed]- ]Will you call your Representative right now and ask them to support my
amendment to repeal the Hyde Amendment?
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As our communities continue to grapple with overlapping crises of public
health, economic opportunity, and systemic racism, the first pro-choice
majority in the history of the House of Representatives has a critical
responsibility to leverage our power and actively dismantle all racist and
discriminatory policies. Particularly policies that strip people of color,
low-income people, immigrants, transgender and gender non-conforming
people of comprehensive health care and the right to make decisions over
their own bodies.
In this moment, where the Trump Administration and anti-choice politicians
in legislatures across the country have made it clear that they will stop
at nothing to ban abortion care, it is no longer enough to simply say that
you are “pro-choice” — we must actively work to ensure that every person
has access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare, including abortion.
Congress must legislate and vote like lives depend on it, because they do.
As Democrats, we must proactively legislate in pursuit of racial and
reproductive justice, and meaningfully advance policies that affirm that
abortion care is health care and health care is a fundamental human right.
[ [link removed]- ]I need every Democrat in the House to support my amendment to repeal
the Hyde Amendment. Please, take a few minutes to call your Representative
today and urge them to co-sponsor my amendment.
Thank you for taking action,
Ayanna Pressley
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