Team—

On Wednesday, a Florida state trial court indicated that it will end our challenge to a law that could push abortion out of reach for many in the state. This law will force patients to wait at least 24 hours after making a separate trip for an in-person meeting with a physician, all before the patient can receive abortion care.

This demeaning, intrusive law forcibly delays a person's access to essential health care, despite potentially dangerous risks to their health.

We will continue to fight to ensure that anyone can get the care they need without political interference. But we need your partnership to do so. Please make a gift by March 31 to prepare for whatever challenges this year will hold.

Since the passage of this law in 2015, Florida politicians have continued to place hurdles in the path of people seeking abortion care. Just this month, the state legislature took its most extreme step yet in attacking the right to reproductive health care when it passed the first abortion ban of 2022—a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign any day.

We need your help to protect these rights as lawmakers in Florida and states across the country seek to dismantle them. Please make a gift of $35 or more today.

Delaying access to abortion is medically unnecessary and is another tactic designed to take away people’s ability to get care when they’ve decided to have an abortion. Florida’s law will force many people to miss work, lose wages, and spend more on transportation and child care. Laws that require people to delay care also push people to have abortions later in their pregnancy, which increases both the cost and the risks of the procedure.

We will not ignore these attacks, but we need your help to protect and expand reproductive rights. Please give by March 31.

Onward,

Marc Hearron
Senior Counsel, U.S. Litigation