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Content Warning: The following email includes and discusses the terms "rape" and "sexual assault."

Dear John,

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, giving us a time to join together as a community to go beyond believing survivors and turn awareness into action.

33% of all Texans experience sexual assault in their lifetime – an incredibly high statistic considering 90% of cases go unreported. In 2020, Texas ranked the 15th most dangerous state for rape and sexual assault.

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These statistics are even more devastating considering our state’s current abortion ban, which offers no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. Governor Abbott has said SB8 doesn't harm survivors because the state would use "aggressive tactics to eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas.”

I f that were possible, wouldn't the state have done it a long time ago?

TFN supporters like you know the truth: Bans like SB8 are yet another form of abuse survivors are enduring in Texas.

People who believe in abortion access and supporting survivors cannot stop fighting. There's too much at stake.


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This Sexual Assault Awareness Month, may we all committ to believing, uplifting, and taking action for survivors 365 days a year.

Sexual assault prevention and awareness is an ever-evolving mission. Survivors cannot prevent their own sexual assault, but we as a community can dismantle our culture’s historical practice of blaming survivors, question the systems that often fail survivors, and demand that we continue working toward safer, more equitable communities where fewer factors that lead to violence exist.



In the fight,
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Emily Witt
Communications Strategist
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