ACLU Supporter –

In just the first two months of this year, state lawmakers across the country already introduced 384 anti-abortion provisions and enacted 8 anti-abortion laws.

Your informed activism will be crucial in the work ahead for our reproductive freedom and that's why we want you to know the situation on the ground as much as possible: Read more on these hostile trends against abortion unfolding in states right now.

So far, South Carolina has enacted a six-week ban that's already been blocked in court. Arkansas's Governor signed a total ban this week, which the ACLU will challenge in court before it goes into effect. And other states could follow suit later this year.

Meanwhile, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Montana, and Oklahoma are working to restrict access to mifepristone – a safe and effective medication used for early abortion and miscarriage care for which we're also fighting at the federal level to ensure access. And all of this only covers a fraction of the nearly 400 state measures targeting abortion access this year.

This has long been the strategy of anti-abortion extremists: Chip away at access state by state until abortion is a right in name only.

But it's not going unanswered. 14 states and D.C. currently have laws that protect the right to abortion. Just last month, New Mexico repealed its outdated abortion ban. And Delaware recently introduced a bill to decriminalize abortion.

The ACLU, along with partner organizations, are fighting back in courts and legislatures every day. Our litigation work spans from Montana to Florida to Guam and we will not be stopping any time soon. Read more today.

ACLU Supporter, what we're facing is an all-out assault on our rights. And it's no coincidence that a record number of anti-transgender bills are showing up in many of the same state legislatures, too. It's all part of an anti-civil liberties agenda that must be stopped.

That's why the ACLU will be here protecting everyone's rights for as long as it takes – and together, I know we can prevail.

Thank you for being in this fight,

Jessica Arons
Pronouns: She, her, hers
Senior Advocacy and Policy Counsel for Reproductive Freedom, ACLU