Dear MoveOn member,
The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just defied nearly 50 years of legal precedent and let a Texas law take effect that bans nearly all abortions in the state.1
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called it "stunning" that the court had failed to block "a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights."2
The Texas law bans abortion as early as six weeks, before most people even know they are pregnant, with no exceptions for sexual assault or incest.3 Numerous other Republican states are poised to pass identical abortion bans, now that the nation's highest court has let it stand.4
And, in a matter of months, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi abortion ban that could go further in overturning the right to safe and legal abortion across the United States.5
John, the day is here: Reproductive freedom is gone in Texas and hanging by a thread nationwide.
We must fight back. To show the world that we won't stop fighting for abortion to be safe, legal, and accessible, MoveOn just printed a big batch of these "Reproductive Freedom for All" stickers and is giving them away for free—while supplies last.
In a free society, all people need to have the ability to determine their future and what happens to their own bodies. All people need access to free, comprehensive, and culturally literate health care including abortion, no matter their race, age, or financial status.
The Texas abortion ban takes us back to the days before Roe v. Wade, when people with resources—largely white, wealthy women—could travel out of state for abortions, while Black women and other people of color were forced to pursue dangerous back-alley abortions or carry unwanted pregnancies to term.
We're here, in 2021, because of a decades-long, massively funded campaign by the far right to pack the courts with anti-abortion ideologues. And because Mitch McConnell upended Senate rules to ram through the Supreme Court confirmations of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
We have to fight back, including by stopping Mitch McConnell from regaining control of the Senate next year. McConnell has already said that he will not allow a vote on any Biden Supreme Court nominee.6 And control of the 50-50 Senate is on a knife's edge.
Thanks for all you do.
–Emily, Oscar, Kelly, Madeleine, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Answers to Questions About the Texas Abortion Law," The New York Times, September 1, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/156528?t=5&akid=305604%2E40999114%2E1LPqMJ
2. "Supreme Court Upholds New Texas Abortion Law, For Now," NPR, September 2, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/156529?t=7&akid=305604%2E40999114%2E1LPqMJ
3. "Answers to Questions About the Texas Abortion Law," The New York Times, September 1, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/156528?t=9&akid=305604%2E40999114%2E1LPqMJ
4. "What The Texas Abortion Ban Does — And What It Means For Other States," NPR, September 1, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/156511?t=11&akid=305604%2E40999114%2E1LPqMJ
5. "Supreme Court refuses to block Texas law banning abortions at six weeks," The Washington Post, September 2, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/156512?t=13&akid=305604%2E40999114%2E1LPqMJ
6. "McConnell signals GOP would block Biden Supreme Court pick in '24," The Hill, June 14, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/153952?t=15&akid=305604%2E40999114%2E1LPqMJ
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