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People For Member,

Since our last email about the Supreme Court's decision not to block a
draconian anti-abortion care law in Texas, GOP lawmakers in Arkansas,
Florida, and South Dakota have all promised to pass copycat bills in their
next legislative session.^[ [link removed] ]

Texas' S.B. 8 has only emboldened anti-choice legislators – and that's why
we desperately need federal protections right away.

[ [link removed] ]Sign NOW to urge Congress to immediately take up and pass the Women’s
Health Protection Act, which would block these harmful measures! >>

Thank you for taking action - we'll be fighting by your side until every
person nationwide has access to safe and affordable reproductive health
care.

– Sarah, People For the American Way

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[ [link removed] ]Pass the Women's Health Protection Act to save reproductive rights! Sign now
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Friend,

One minute before midnight, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4
ruling declining to put a stop to S.B. 8, the draconian Texas law that
bans access to abortion care after a mere six weeks of pregnancy and makes
“bounty hunters” out of anyone opposed to abortion.

Roe v. Wade’s protections are once again directly at risk. With a
Mississippi challenge already at SCOTUS, and other challenges to abortion
access already moving their way through state legislatures across the
South, this could have a lasting nationwide impact.

The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) would establish federal
protections for abortion care specifically and reproductive health care
broadly – and it’s become abundantly clear that we have no time to waste.
Far-right lawmakers won’t slow their attacks, so we need to ramp up our
pressure on Congress to pass this vital bill right away.

[3]Sign NOW to urge Congress to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act
without delay! >>

Speaker Nancy Pelosi just pledged that the House will bring up WHPA for a
vote, “to enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across
America,” when representatives return from recess later this month.^[1] We
need to build support for this vital bill NOW and make sure both the House
and Senate are feeling the pressure to act.

WHPA is designed to put an end to, and declare illegal, abortion bans like
S.B. 8. Further, passing WHPA would lift barriers to care that
disproportionately harm Black, brown, and Indigenous people, transgender
and queer people, disabled people, low-income people, and people living in
rural areas – especially those in states (like Texas) where these
appalling laws to virtually eliminate abortion access are being passed
now.

With S.B. 8’s challenge to Roe v. Wade and the grave threats it poses for
Texans, it’s vital that the protections of the WHPA are codified in
federal law before any further laws are enacted. 2021 has already been the
most hostile year on record for state attacks on abortion access.^[2] We
need the WHPA so that we can stop these attacks.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to urge Congress to protect the right to comprehensive
reproductive health care by immediately passing the Women’s Health
Protection Act! >>

To save every person’s right to access abortion, and with Roe hanging in
the balance of a radical right-wing Supreme Court, we need urgent action
in Congress.

In community,

Sarah, Digital Campaigns Associate

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[1] [ [link removed] ]“Nancy Pelosi Announces Vote On Bill To Codify Roe v. Wade.” (The
Huffington Post, 9/2/2021.)

[2] [ [link removed] ]“State Policy Trends at Midyear 2021: Already the Worst Legislative
Year Ever for U.S. Abortion Rights.” (Guttmacher Institute, 7/1/2021.)

[3] [ [link removed] ]“Abortion Arrives at the Center of the American Political
Maelstrom.” (The New York Times, 9/2/2021.)

 


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