John,
Early into the 118th Congress, House Republicans have made their priorities clear.
As one of their first acts, they passed two pieces of anti-abortion legislation in an effort to wield even more power over the lives of our friends, family, and neighbors who can get pregnant — as well as the doctors trying to help them.
What’s more, they did it with the help of Democrats like Rep. Henry Cuellar, the anti-abortion Democrat who beat WFP champion Jessica Cisneros by less than 300 votes last May.
We won’t stand for it.
We’re demanding that Democrats in Congress fight like hell to stop Republican attacks and to protect and expand abortion access. Sign the petition now to join the fight.
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Across the country, our movement continues to fight for the freedom to decide if and when to grow your family — and we’ve seen some real victories in just the last few weeks:
- In South Carolina, the state’s Supreme Court just struck down a six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional.
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In Virginia, two advocates for reproductive freedom (including WFP candidate Jennifer McClellan!) have won special elections in races for Congress and state legislature, dealing a serious blow to Republican hopes to restrict abortion access in the state.
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And in states without abortion bans, pregnant people seeking abortion care will be able to get the medication they need at CVS, Walgreens, and other local drugstores.
But we’ve seen some painful setbacks too:
- The Alabama attorney general plans to prosecute abortion patients in violation of the state’s own law.
- The Nebraska state legislature and Idaho Supreme Court are working to ban abortions at just six weeks of pregnancy — and with people considered two weeks pregnant at conception, this means that pregnant people will have only fourteen days after a missed period to decide what they want and find a way to access an abortion.
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And as bans in so many other states continue, countless people are forced into traumatic, dangerous, and expensive births, or criminalized for finding care to prevent that.
While our work in the states is crucial, we still need action at the federal level to defend and expand our reproductive freedom. We need the House to fight back, and we need to hold accountable any member of Congress who doesn’t.
Will you join us in demanding that Democrats do everything in their power to protect and expand abortion access in the new Congress? Click here to sign our petition and join WFP members nationwide in this fight.
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In solidarity,
Working Families Party
