Dear John,

After hearing the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the very first thing I did — maybe like some of you — was call my mom.

My mom taught me from a young age that my voice matters. She raised me to stand up and speak out when I witnessed injustice around me, and she raised me to fight not with anger, but with love. And in a moment of overwhelming fear and anger and sadness, her words brought me strength.

I know that, like me, many of you are looking to my mom for our next steps in the coming months. That fills me with hope for our future, because there is no better leader in this fight than Patty Pansing Brooks.

My mom has stood on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature late into the night battling horrible bans on our reproductive health care. She has worked directly alongside Planned Parenthood to keep safe, legal abortion in Nebraska. And my mom has made a promise to our district that she will continue fighting with everything she has to protect our reproductive rights.

John, if you know my mom, you know she’s never broken a promise.

Our current congressman has already voted to strip our bodily autonomy and restrict our access to necessary health care like birth control. And now that a national abortion ban is on the table, it’s clear he’ll vote to permanently end our access to potentially life-saving reproductive health care, too. John, we cannot let him keep his seat in Congress this November.

This election, our district has the opportunity to fight back by electing a leader who has advocated at the frontlines for our reproductive rights since the beginning of her career. If you agree that abortion and birth control are necessary health care we cannot afford to lose, please chip in today so Patty Pansing Brooks can safeguard our reproductive rights in Congress:

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My mom has said this once, but I’ll say it again: We are not helpless. We have voices, and we must use them to ensure each and every American can make their own decisions about their own health care at the ballot box this November.

With love and hope,

Avary Pansing Brooks