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Friends,
I am 85 years old. I have seen this nation through the horrors and injustices of internment, Jim Crow, and segregation. But I have also seen its great people rise for their voting and civil rights, for the right to love and marry, and against police brutality. And I am seeing them rise again today.
Two months ago, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, we didn’t know quite how quickly the right to comprehensive reproductive care and abortion would vanish. But in 8 short weeks, abortion has now been banned in at least ten states, and another four states now ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, before many people even know they are pregnant.
We have to unite and strike back. That means overwhelming them at the ballot box in November and, crucially, funding the candidates who can not only prevail against anti-abortion Republicans, but also fight back against right-wing abortion bans at the state level.
Can you join the fight? If you’re able, please donate $25 to #VOTEPROCHOICE’s Care is Not Criminal Emergency Fund to coach, support, and elect prochoice leaders to offices like Attorney General, District Attorney, Judge, Sheriff, and more — all of whom are committed to protecting patients and providers from criminalization around receiving or providing abortion care.
Not only are we on the right side of history, but the wind is at our backs heading into November None of us predicted that Kansas voters would push back against the attempt to strip abortion protections from their constitution in such overwhelming numbers.
But there’s even more good news:
- Austin City Council passed the Guarding the Right to Abortion Care for Everyone Act to protect abortion access, and San Antonio, Dallas, Gainesville, Pittsburgh, Radnor, Spokane, Dayton, Boise, Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Denton also passed similar legislation or decriminalization legislation
- Atlanta City Council voted unanimously to donate $300K to an abortion fund, and that’s why #VOTEPROCHOICE continues to prioritize working at the local level, especially in their priority states like Georgia
- Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the Biden administration’s first new litigation to protect access to abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
- And President Biden recently signed an executive order aimed at helping Americans cross state lines for abortions
In the fight for reproductive care and access, we need to channel our collective outrage into taking back the country from these extremists.
So if you’re able, please consider contributing $25 to the Care is Not Criminal Fund so people can vote prochoice and prosper.
When the forces of darkness and oppression gather, it is our sacred duty to answer the call and to push back with all we have, and to do so together.
We are the majority, and we have the numbers to turn back this tide. We need only muster the will to do so collectively.
George Takei
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