Regardless of what anyone says: Abortion is basic health care.
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Protection Act NOW!
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Dear Friend,
On Monday, June 29, the Supreme Court struck down a law in the state of
Louisiana that would put limits on admitting privileges; making it so that
physicians would have to work within 30 miles of a clinic in order to
provide abortion care to their patients. If this law passed, BIPOC (Black,
Indigenous, People of Color), young people, LGBTQ+ people, people living
with disabilities, immigrant, and/or low income communities would have
been disproportionately affected, leaving these groups with little to no
access to abortion and reproductive health services. Although we are
relieved that the only three abortion clinics are protected in Louisiana,
our fight remains.
There are attacks on abortion happening in several states around the
country-- and have been for decades: Roe v. Wade-- and the Women’s Health
Protection Act (WHPA) is an important step forward in ensuring that people
have attainable access to quality, affordable, and compassionate
reproductive services and abortion in their state. [ [link removed] ]With your signature,
we will tell lawmakers to support the Women’s Health Protection Act NOW!
When you click you’ll automatically sign on if we already have your
information.
The Women’s Health Protection Act is a federal bill that will protect
abortion privileges for all people, nationwide, while making sure medical
bans and harmful, unnecessary restrictions perpetuated by anti-abortion
politicians never see the light of day. We will continue to fight against
laws that exploit people during the COVID-19 public health crisis and
block access to health centers and clinics. Abortion is essential,
time-sensitive health care, and a crucial tool in the fight to advance
race and gender equity. It deserves to be treated as such without
financial burdens and social stigmas attached.
[ [link removed] ]Your voice matters. Sign your name to our petition in support of the
Women’s Health Protection Act!
- Diarra, Monifa, and the whole MomsRising / MamásConPoder team
P.S. We're collecting stories about abortion experiences with the goal of
liberation and freedom to choose. With our stories, we will demand freedom
from state violence and to be treated with dignity and respect. Have you
or someone you love needed abortion services? Share your story with us and
watch our ad with UltraViolet:
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Dear Friend,
Last Friday, Missouri came one step closer to becoming the first state in
the nation without an abortion clinic when its health department rejected
a license renewal for the St. Louis Planned Parenthood location. [1]
Across the country, women’s reproductive rights are under attack — now
more than ever. That’s why we’re asking members of Congress to STOP these
plans to roll back our right to reproductive health and freedom once and
for all by passing the Women’s Health Protection Act (S.1645 / H.R. 2975).
[2]
[ [link removed] ]*Quick Signature: Tell lawmakers to support the Women’s Health
Protection Act NOW! When you click you’ll automatically sign on if we
already have your information.
Most women who have abortions are already moms. [3] Being able to manage
how many children we have and when we have them has been nothing short of
revolutionary — not just for women and mothers, but for our country as a
whole. It has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, improved the health of
women and their families, and led women toward access to increased
economic and political power.
Make no mistake, this war on mothers and women is not about reducing
abortions. In fact, if the goal of those who are passing such severely
restrictive laws was to avoid abortion, then they'd be passing access to
free birth control, which is proven to lower abortion rates, [4] instead
of setting lifetime imprisonment laws for doctors who help women in need.
What's really happening is a direct attack on women and moms having bodily
autonomy, economic freedom, and sovereignty in our lives.
This situation is NOT okay. Twenty-five million women — that’s one in
three women of reproductive age – now live in states in which abortion
under any circumstances could be outlawed if the Supreme Court were to
overturn Roe v. Wade. [5] Make no mistake: this war on women, mothers, and
our daughters particularly harms women in low-income families and
communities of color, who face more barriers accessing reproductive health
care. [6]
[ [link removed] ]Sign now! Add your name to our petition in support of the Women’s
Health Protection Act! *When you click you’ll automatically sign on if we
already have your information.
Our petition reads:
As one of over a million members of MomsRising, I am writing to ask that
you support the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)! Since 2011,
hundreds of laws have been passed across the country to regulate and
restrict abortion access.
This MUST stop.
Anyone who needs an abortion in the United States, deserves quality,
affordable medical care, and a relationship with their health care
provicer that is free from government intrusion. The WHPA protects these
rights: Equal access to abortion, everywhere for everyone. Please
support the WHPA!
[ [link removed] ]Add your name! Sign on to support the Women’s Health Protection Act!
*When you click you’ll automatically sign on if we already have your
information.
Lawmakers should not be attacking women, who are half their constituents.
Instead, they should be supporting us by passing paid family/medical leave
like every other industrialized nation has done, access to health care
including birth control, affordable childcare, equal pay, fair treatment
of immigrant families, and an end to the mass incarceration that tears too
many families apart — and not a rollback of our rights.
Please forward this email and link to everyone you know who believes in a
woman’s equal right to freedom and her own autonomy, and ask them to sign
too. [ [link removed] ][link removed]
Together we are a powerful voice for the health of women.
- Felicia, Monifa, Kristin and the whole MomsRising / MamásConPoder team
P.S. Have you or someone you love needed abortion services? Tell us your
story:
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P.P.S. We want to be perfectly clear, abortion is still legal in every
state in the United States, including in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and
Louisiana as these laws have not taken effect yet. If you or someone you
know needs an abortion, you are perfectly within your legal right to
receive one. [7] If you need help accessing an abortion or paying for one,
go to the [ [link removed] ]National Network of Abortion Funds.
[1] “[ [link removed] ]Missouri rules against the state's last abortion clinic,” CNN,
June 21, 2019.
[2] “[ [link removed] ]The Women’s Health Protection Act,” ACT for Women!
[3] “[ [link removed] ]Characteristics of U.S. Abortion Patients in 2014 and Changes
Since 2008,” New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2016.
[4] “[ [link removed] ]Access to free birth control reduces abortion rates," Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Oct. 12, 2012.
[5] "[ [link removed] ]NEW REPORT: Abortion at Risk for More than 25 Million Women in 20
States," Planned Parenthood, Oct. 3, 2018.
[6] "[ [link removed] ]Abortion Restrictions Hurt Women of Color," Nikita Mhatre,
National Partnership for Women & Families, Apr 25, 2019.
[7] "[ [link removed] ]Abortion is still legal in America," Vox, May 16, 2019.
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