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Dear John,
I am horrified. The Supreme Court just took away your right to abortion and betrayed decades of legal precedent. As a lawyer who has spent my career utilizing the law to create a more just and equitable world for women, today is heartbreaking. Our fundamental right to reproductive autonomy, agency, freedom, and nearly 50 years of settled law has just been obliterated. I am outraged that our highest Court in the land has been politicized and weaponized by extremist politicians who want to control our bodies, lives, and futures.
The chaos and generational harm that will follow did not happen overnight, nor by chance—but instead is the direct result of decades of sustained attacks by conservative extremists determined to gut our democracy and enact control over those they have pushed to the margins for decades. Justices who signed onto this opinion just greenlit the harm and violence that pregnant people will be forced to suffer.
This decision is about who has power over you, who has the authority to make decisions for you, and who is going to control how your future is going to turn out. But it is not the end. We will never stop fighting—in our communities, in state houses, and on Capitol Hill—for a world where each of us has the power to control our own bodies, decisions, and lives. They will not win—and we refuse to let them. But we can’t do it alone, we need you to join us!
Here’s what you can do right now:
- Donate to an abortion fund and support independent abortion clinics—the majority of abortions in the United States are performed by independent clinics. Clinics in hostile states and in abortion-friendly states will both be terribly impacted by this decision.
- Share stories of how abortion access impacted your life with everyone you know, everywhere you can. You have the power to change your community's perception, to influence lawmakers and companies, to fight disinformation, and to end the stigma around abortion. This will be essential to passing proactive abortion policies and changing the political landscape that made this decision possible. Our words and stories have immense power. We have to use it.
This decision is not the will of the people, and we will continue to demand action from our local, state, and federal elected officials to protect and expand abortion access. But at 5 p.m. today, we will see you in the streets to make our voices heard.
People have always needed abortion care. People will continue to need abortion care. And we will never stop fighting for your right and ability to get that care!
Sincerely,
Fatima Goss Graves
she/her/hers
President & CEO
National Women's Law Center
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