Dear Member of Congress:
In this 53rd year since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal, we continue to stand firmly for our right to make decisions about our health care and our bodies. We ask you to stand with us in the struggle to ensure access to abortion, which polls show is highly supported across the nation.
As the nation continues to fight the devastating health care cuts signed into law by Trump, that could cause over 2 million reproductive age women to lose health care coverage, we ask you to fight for health care, including abortion access, for our communities. [1]
Abortion bans have been deadly to mothers in states all over the country that already have some of the highest rates of maternal deaths. Amber Thurman and Candi Miller of Georgia; Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain, Porsha Ngumezi, Tierra Walker of Texas; and Ciji Graham of North Carolina were all denied access to this essential health care. As a result of abortion bans, their children and families are mourning these preventable deaths. [2,3,4,5,6,7]
The fact is, six in ten people who have abortion are already moms, and voters in the United States have consistently supported expanding abortion access. [8,9] Most Americans agree: abortion care should be available to everyone who needs it.
We will continue fighting for bodily autonomy, a widely held right in all other industrialized countries, so that we don’t have to bury any more mothers.
We demand that you stand with us in this fight.
Sincerely,
[1] New Federal Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate Coverage for Reproductive Health Care
[2] Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
[3] Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died
[4] A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital
[5] A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
[6]“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
[7] A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms
[8] Who's getting abortions? Not who you’d think.
[9] 2023 and 2024 abortion-related ballot measures