Friend,

This past week, I introduced the PRO-LIFE Act in the House.

Before you spit out your coffee, rest assured: My stance on abortion rights hasn't changed one bit.

When it goes up for a vote, the PRO-LIFE Act (known in full as the Providing Real Opportunities and Lifelong Investments For Everyone Act) will show Americans which representatives are interested in supporting parents, kids, and family life -- the very thing that happens after we are born.

More importantly, if passed, it will build a country where everyone has better access to health care, child care, education, and paid leave.

Read more about the PRO-LIFE Act here -- then add your name to show your support. Together, we'll show Republicans what being pro-life really means.

My bill wasn’t the only one introduced in Congress last week. On Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks nationwide.

This is the long game Republicans in Congress have been playing: fill the Supreme Court with radical conservatives, overturn the constitutional right to abortion, and end reproductive freedom nationwide. For what?

It’s a cynical strategy with a heartless outcome.

The PRO-LIFE Act is just the opposite. It's a set of popular, family-focused policies -- and you can sign on in support right now. Republicans have blocked these policies in the past, but we have a real shot at passing them if we expand our Democratic majorities this year. The PRO-LIFE Act would:

• Give Americans paid family and medical leave (for instance, after the birth of a child)
   
• Give parents a monthly monetary credit for each child they're raising
   
• Provide grants for child care facilities and incentives for people to start careers in child care and early childhood education
   
• Recognize employers that subsidize child care and help employees pay for adoption services, and provide additional paid family and sick leave
   
• Save lives of people giving birth and end racial disparities in maternal health
   
• Expand health care for children

Learn more about this crucial bill and add your name in support today.

For too long, politicians have used the term "pro-life" to drive a wedge between Americans. No more. My Democratic colleagues and I are redefining what it means to be pro-life, and I hope you'll join us.

Thank you,

Dean