[ [link removed] ]Mark the 50th anniversary of Roe by adding your name to defend and
expand abortion rights and abortion access and to say no to a national
abortion ban.

Dear MoveOn member,

January 22 should have marked the 50th anniversary of Roe protecting
abortion rights in our country.

Instead, following the Dobbs decision, which overturned the right to
abortion provided by Roe, right-wing laws have taken effect in state after
state to ban abortion and criminalize those who seek and provide it.^1
These harsh laws take away a fundamental right that had been guaranteed by
the Constitution for nearly 50 years and fulfill an extremist vision of
exerting control over our health, our bodies, and our autonomy.

As a result, pregnant people—many of whom already faced challenges in
accessing the abortion care that should have been their right—are forced
to travel long distances to seek care, or to carry to term pregnancies
that could be harmful or fatal. And we have seen these same Republican
legislators seeking to jail and punish people in cruel and outrageous
ways.^2

The Republican majority is now bringing these attacks to Congress, where
their majority in the House of Representatives wasted no time in passing
two anti-abortion bills. We know they won't stop there: They'll go after
the right to contraception, limit access to self-managed abortion, and
seek a full national abortion ban.

[ [link removed] ]We need to stop them at all costs.

Defeat all bills in Congress to limit access to abortion—including the
push for a national abortion ban. On what would have been the 50th
anniversary of Roe, we need to be expanding access to abortion as
essential health care and codifying abortion as a fundamental right, and
we can't let MAGA Republicans control our bodies and our health.

[3]Sign the petition

The mortality rate of women, trans, and nonbinary pregnant people has
increased as a result of the GOP-packed Supreme Court's decision to
overturn Roe, and anti-abortion bills like a national abortion ban would
lead to more and more cruel deaths.^3 These GOP anti-abortion bills will
disproportionately impact Black people, Indigenous people, brown people,
poor people, immigrants, people with disabilities, and young people who
have historically been marginalized and have faced structural barriers,
even when abortion was legal. That’s why, as a community, we have to stick
together as we continue to fight for bodily autonomy and universal health
care for all.

Democrats in the Senate and President Biden need to take every measure to
defeat these bans and restrictions. More than that, they need to continue
the fight to codify the protections of Roe into law—and do away with the
regressive, racist, Jim Crow filibuster, if necessary, to pass such a bill
in the Senate.

And as the House continues to vote on these bills, we need every member of
Congress to hear from their constituents, to know that a vast, bipartisan
majority of Americans support abortion rights, and that they will be held
accountable for voting for any measure that seeks to limit those rights,
including a national abortion ban.

[ [link removed] ]Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to
your friends.

Thanks for all you do.

–Justin, Mana, Jensine, Melissa, and the rest of the team

Sources:
 
1. "Two months after the Dobbs ruling, new abortion bans are taking hold,"
NPR, August 23, 2022
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2. "Roe is over. Prison sentences are on the way," NBC News, July 3, 2022
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3. "Maternal and infant death rates are higher in states that ban or
restrict abortion, report says," CNN, December 16, 2022
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