❤️ Reproductive Freedom for All
❤️ Our right to reproductive freedom must be protected. Read the latest updates and join the movement to hold our leaders accountable to the people's will.
MAGA Republicans are relentlessly attacking reproductive freedom, undermining the rights and autonomy of millions of Americans. Their harmful agenda puts personal medical decisions in the hands of politicians, stripping away essential healthcare and endangering lives. We must stand united to protect reproductive justice and preserve the rights of all people to control their own bodies.
Across the nation, health centers continue to provide essential sexual and reproductive health services like birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing, and, where legally allowed, abortion care.
Yet, 28 million women of reproductive age are now facing severe restrictions as abortion bans take hold in their states.
These bans are costing lives. We know the names and stories of those affected, and tragically, they are just the beginning. Every day under these restrictions means more suffering, more lives impacted.
Americans are deeply anxious and fearful.
Abortion is both a vital service and widely supported by the public. Americans don’t want politicians interfering in personal health care choices.
Today’s Call-To-Action
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Reproductive Freedom for All - News Briefs
Progress on abortion rights and gun safety must come in the states - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe By Scot Lehigh
For those who hold center-left positions on abortion rights and sensible gun-safety measures, this election was obviously a profound disappointment, conferring as it did a trifecta majority on a party that doesn’t support either. But though it’s not a remedy, there is at least a sensible reactive course to the national outcome: For the next two years, invest heavily in state efforts on those issues. On abortion, that approach has already brought important results.
California prepares to fortify state’s abortion access: ‘Fight for what’s right’
The Guardian By Sam Levin
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, anti-abortion groups are hoping this is their moment. With Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the US supreme court governed by a conservative supermajority, activists are pushing an extreme agenda, including a nationwide abortion ban, a prohibition on abortion pills, a “fetal personhood” doctrine that could restrict in vitro fertilization and attacks on contraception.
Trans health care under Trump may follow the abortion playbook and its Hyde amendment
NPR By Selena Simmons-Duffin
Trans health care under Trump may follow the abortion playbook and its Hyde amendment. Ringing in voters' ears in the final weeks of the presidential campaign was the tagline: "Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you. "With the success of that part of its closing argument, the new Trump administration is likely to turn to policy affecting transgender people early in its tenure.
Georgia disbands current maternal mortality committee over leaked abortion information
ABC News
A Georgia official disbanded the state's maternal mortality committee that investigates deaths of pregnant women. Georgia's top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after a committee member presumably released information about two such deaths.
People Power United’s Statement on Reproductive Freedom for All
People Power United declares that MAGA Republicans are relentlessly attacking reproductive freedom, undermining the rights and autonomy of millions of Americans. Their harmful agenda puts personal medical decisions in the hands of politicians, stripping away essential healthcare and endangering lives.
In response to recent MAGA shenanigans to harm Americans, People Power United - a progressive grassroots group - issued the following statement:
“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice and preserve the rights of all people to control their own bodies. There is no power like that of the people, and People Power United stands ready to protect our communities against any and all injustices,” said Laurie Woodward García of People Power United.
People Power United will continue to oppose such harm to our community and champion civil rights for all.
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Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)
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