Hi John. If we haven’t met before, I’m Tamika, the Managing Director of Women’s March.
We really want to hear from a Women’s Marcher in Washington so we can understand the challenges your community faces in accessing reproductive health care and how we should push back as a movement against the nationwide wave of attacks on abortion access.
Yours in solidarity,
— Tamika
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Sender: WomensMarch.com
Date: January 24, 2022
Subject: re: Abortion access in Washington
John, we don’t say this lightly: The future of abortion access in our country is under grave threat.
From our far-right Supreme Court allowing Texas’ 6-week abortion ban to continue, to the record number of local abortion care restrictions that have been passed in the past year — we are currently witnessing the worst attacks on reproductive rights in our lifetimes.
We know this is an issue that directly impacts Women’s Marchers like you, John, so we want to hear directly from you how these attacks have affected access to abortion care in Washington.
Your answers will help guide Women’s March as we plan out our strategy to fight back against the GOP's barrage of attacks on our reproductive health and to pass solutions like the Women’s Health Protection Act. Will you take five minutes right now to participate in our Abortion Access Survey and share any experiences you’ve had in Washington regarding reproductive care?
SB 8 — Texas’ abortion ban that the Supreme Court recently approved — bans abortions as early as six weeks and puts the power of enforcement in anyone’s hands. Most people don’t even know they’re pregnant that early on and Texans are already experiencing the devastating impact of this cruel ban.
To make matters even worse, SB 8 is just one example of the hundreds of laws being passed around the country in an attempt to ban abortions and limit our access to reproductive freedom.
Let’s make this clear: This has been Trump and the GOP’s plan all along. This is why they stacked the Supreme Court with ultra-conservative justices like Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. This is why Mitch McConnell confirmed a record number of anti-abortion judges to courts across the country.
They have a coordinated strategy to dismantle abortion rights and we must fight back together as a movement to stop their cruel, anti-women plans.
Thank you for taking action to defend our rights,
Women's March