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.
We need to stop them at all costs.
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.
Thanks for all you do.
–Justin, Mana, Jensine, Melissa, and the rest of the team
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