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TO: President Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services
Abortion Is Health Care
Dear MoveOn member,
Health care is a human right. And yet, it is under attack across the country. On Monday, news broke that the right wing-hijacked Supreme Court appears to be set on overturning Roe v. Wade, which would allow horrible abortion bans to go into effect in dozens of states across the country.1
While the justices have not finalized this ruling, it shows what direction the right-wing justices intend to go—they plan to overturn all of the protections afforded by Roe, immediately allowing state after state to enforce cruel abortion bans, and launch a full-on attack against reproductive rights. With the final Supreme Court decision expected in the next few weeks, now is the time for our elected officials at all levels, including President Biden to use all his power to act before any services are cut off.
The abortion ban laws passing in states across the country are terrifying. In Oklahoma, Republicans passed a bill that bans abortion after 6 weeks, before many people know they are pregnant, with no exceptions for rape or incest.2 This ban is particularly disastrous because it would immediately cut off most abortion access in a state that has absorbed nearly half of all Texas patients who have traveled out of state for abortions since Texas enacted a similar law last fall.3 And it's not just Oklahoma.
The recent surge of abortion bans across the country has politicized abortion as a way to increase power for the GOP and dictate what a person can and cannot do with their body.4 But the reality is, the right to an abortion shouldn’t be political, because access to safe, legal abortion is access to vital health care, and we need to ensure accessible, high-quality health care to everyone in America. Will you sign the petition?
Accessible and affordable health care is already limited in our country, and losing access to vital reproductive health care is just going to put more individuals and communities in danger. These bans impact marginalized communities the most,5 and we need public health officials to step in and take action to protect and expand access to abortion and broader reproductive health now.
Tell President Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services to take action to protect and expand abortion access now.
