The Rights of Pregnant Women Under Attack. Take Action!

Stand Up for the Rights of Pregnant Women in the U.S.

Women across this country are losing the right to make decisions about their own bodies — and three recent cases show how far it has gone.

In Florida, Cherise Doyley was 12 hours into active labor when a tablet appeared at her hospital bed. She was in court — no lawyer, no advocate, no time to prepare. A judge forced a C-section that she had explicitly refused. Brianna Bennett faced the same thing at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in 2023. After 24 hours of labor, a court ordered her into surgery. The procedure was so complicated she was warned against future pregnancies.

In Georgia, Alexia Moore — a U.S. Army veteran and mother of two — was charged with murder after being brought to the hospital in extreme pain following what police allege was an attempt to end her pregnancy. Even the judge who set her bond at $1 called the charge "extremely problematic." She served her country, raised her boys, and found herself with no safe options. For that, she was sent to jail.

These are not accidents. They are the result of laws that treat pregnant women as less than full human beings — laws that force the government into decisions that belong between a woman and her doctor.

Urge your Member of Congress to ensure that pregnant people have the power to make medical decisions about their own bodies!

Dear member of Congress:

I am writing to demand that you take immediate action to protect the right of pregnant women to make their own medical decisions.

Three recent cases make clear that this right is under serious threat.

In Florida, Cherise Doyley was 12 hours into active labor when a tablet was wheeled to her hospital bed. She was in court — no lawyer, no advocate, no time to prepare — while in active labor. A judge forced a C-section she had explicitly refused. Brianna Bennett faced the same situation at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in 2023. After 24 hours of labor, a court ordered her into surgery so complicated she was warned against future pregnancies. Both women were Black. Both were informed. Both were overruled.

In Georgia, Alexia Moore — a U.S. Army veteran and mother of two — was charged with murder after seeking to end a pregnancy with no safe legal options available to her. Even the judge who set her bond at $1 called the charge "extremely problematic."

Pregnancy is currently the only condition in which American courts have ruled that a patient can be forced to undergo unwanted medical treatment. That is wrong. It must end.

I am asking you to act — through legislation, through hearings, through every tool available to you — to ensure that pregnant women in this country have the same right as every other patient: the right to make decisions about their own bodies, free from government interference, prosecution, or punishment.

Sincerely,

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