Team,

As a Center supporter, I know you're keenly aware that we're in the midst of an abortion access crisis in the United States. This crisis is the culmination of decades of attacks launched by anti-abortion opponents in an attempt to restrict reproductive rights and legislate abortion out of reach.

Last year, anti-abortion politicians helped bring a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court. On December 1, our litigators argued before the Court in our case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, challenging a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case could gut the landmark decision and lead to half the states in the U.S. taking action to ban abortion.

Roe is the floor when it comes to protecting abortion access in the United States, not the ceiling. We need federal legislative protections. That's why we need the U.S. Senate to pass the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA) NOW.

Join us in demanding the U.S. Senate pass WHPA and ACT FOR ABORTION ACCESS.

When passed, WHPA will protect access to abortion across the United States, free from the medically unnecessary restrictions that anti-abortion lawmakers rely on to push this essential care out of reach. We cannot wait. We need our elected leaders to act NOW.

Here are three key reasons why we need WHPA NOW:

1. When abortion is accessible, individuals, families, and communities thrive. Equal access to abortion care—everywhere—is essential to social and economic participation, reproductive autonomy, and the right to determine the course of our own lives.
   
   
2. The right to abortion is not real if only some people can access it. Hundreds of state-level laws restricting and banning abortion have made this vital care extremely difficult to access for people across the U.S.
   
   
3. The elimination of abortion restrictions is essential to the pursuit of reproductive, economic, and racial justice. The people most hurt by abortion restrictions are those who already face systemic and discriminatory barriers to accessing health care—including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, women, those having a hard time making ends meet, members of the LGBTQI+ community, immigrants, young people, those living in rural communities, and people with disabilities.

More than 500 anti-abortion laws have been pushed through state legislatures in the last decade, and we know more are coming. It's time for your representatives in Congress to put a stop to the madness.

Tell your senators to take a stand for abortion access by passing WHPA!

The stakes are too high to back down now.

Onward,

Jackie Blank
Federal Legislative Strategist and Women's Health Protection Act Campaign Manager