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.
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.
Thank you for taking action,
Ayanna Pressley
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