Friend,

Last night, former President Donald Trump (who believes women should face “some sort of punishment” for seeking abortions) announced his re-election campaign, a reminder that our work to protect reproductive freedom is far from over.

Last week’s victories do not indicate a finish line, but an open door of opportunity to take meaningful action in the coming weeks and months. And we cannot wait until 2024.

The 2022 midterm election results can be entirely attributed to prochoice voters, specifically young people, women, LGBTQ+ folks, and historically disenfranchised communities — the populations most threatened by attacks on reproductive freedom and politicians like Donald Trump.

Friend, if you’re able, please invest in our work to support prochoice champions who stand up to anti-choice politicians like Trump and who fight for our reproductive freedom.

In #VOTEPROCHOICE priority states, we won critical Congressional races in places like Ohio, staved off an anti-choice Republican supermajority in North Carolina, ran the full board and made history in Michigan and Pennsylvania, and ensured that abortion rights went undefeated in five states with ballot initiatives.

And if we want to prevent another anti-choice conservative presidency, we need to learn the lessons this past election taught us and continue mobilizing voters around abortion.

To build on this momentum, we need to invest in down-ballot races and prochoice voters, cultivating a year-round organizing infrastructure and centering our reproductive freedom.

Because last week proved that when voters understand how their vote impacts abortion rights, they show up for reproductive freedom.

Our endorsed candidates boldly run on a prochoice platform — and even in some of the toughest of races, they were rewarded for their commitment to fighting for bodily autonomy last week.

Now is the time to invest in down-ballot races, in young voters, women, and marginalized communities — and we can’t wait until 2024 to begin that work.

Next year, voters in states like Kentucky and Virginia will cast ballots in critical state races with huge implications for reproductive freedom, and municipal elections will determine whether district attorneys will pursue the criminalization of patients.

Our wins for access to reproductive care show us that we still have the chance to take meaningful action in the months and years ahead — not only to build the pillars of reproductive freedom that have been systematically dismantled over the past 50 years but also to stop anti-choice politicians like Donald Trump in 2024.

In solidarity,

Heidi L. Sieck
CEO/Co-founder
#VOTEPROCHOICE