Dear Friend,

When I was 17, I was looking forward to escaping high school and going to
college when I unintentionally got pregnant.

I had an abortion. [ [link removed] ]

Twenty years later, I became a mom. In that time, I didn’t just build a
career and create a stable home—I found spiritual grounding as a Buddhist.
I volunteered on municipal and nonprofit boards, and became an influential
activist for a variety of causes. I made the world a better place and
improved myself in the process. All of this allows me to be a better
parent than I would have been when I was an unprepared teenager.

The more I talk about my abortion, the more I hear from others who had
them, too. And, the more I realize that this experience I kept secret from
even my closest friends at the time was actually incredibly common.

Over the last two years, with the new makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court,
anti-abortion lawmakers have mounted a coordinated assault of
unconstitutional bans in order to dismantle Roe v. Wade and attack
people’s right to access safe, legal abortion. In fact, The U.S. Supreme
Court will soon consider Louisiana’s June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee
case. [ [link removed] ] If this clinic shut down law is successful, it would leave only
one doctor to provide abortions for nearly one million women across the
state, and would disproportionately harm low-income people and people of
color. [ [link removed] ]

*We need everyone to speak out to protect our right to choose! Please take
action:

* Have you or someone you love needed abortion services? [1]Tell us your
story (you can do so anonymously, if you wish). I know how hard it is
to share such a personal story, but you don't know who you could be
helping. 

* [2]Write a letter to the editor to support the Women’s Health
Protection Act that’s moving in Congress right now, which would stop
dangerous state-level attacks on abortion. 

* [3]Urge your national lawmakers to co-sponsor the EACH (Equal Access
to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance) Woman Act to repeal the Hyde
Amendment, which makes abortion out of reach for people who get their
health care through government-funded insurance programs. Your Action
Status: NOT YET SIGNED -->
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Abortion care is health care.

Most people who have abortions already have children, and research shows
they do so mainly due to concerns for their families. [4] Being able to
safely and legally manage if, how many, and when we have children has been
nothing short of revolutionary to move women toward economic, social and
political equality .

To be clear: Banning abortion doesn’t end abortion—it just ends safe,
legal abortion. While abortion care is still legal in our nation right
now, [5] we recognize this as the direct attack on bodily autonomy,
economic freedom, and sovereignty that it is, and we recognize that its
harmful impacts are compounded for those in low-income communities and
communities of color. [6]

The more people who speak out, the bigger our impact. Please take a moment
to forward this email to your friends and family and share our story
collection link on social media:
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In solidarity,

- Ruby and the whole MomsRising / MamásConPoder team

 

[1] MomsRising, [ [link removed] ]A Mom’s Abortion Story
[2] Center for Reproductive Rights, [ [link removed] ]June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee
Backgrounder
[3] Center for Reproductive Rights, [ [link removed] ]Center for Reproductive Rights
Back at U.S. Supreme Court; Identical Abortion Issue Decided in 2016 
[4] Guttmacher Institute, [ [link removed] ]Infographic: U.S. Abortion Patients
[5] Vox, [ [link removed] ]Abortion is still legal in America
[6] Vox, [ [link removed] ]Recent abortion bans will impact poor people and people of
color most

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