Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 24 Republican-led legislatures have instituted egregious abortion bans, preventing millions of people from making their own reproductive health decisions or accessing necessary medical care. While Washington, Oregon and California move to protect rights, almost half the country has chosen to treat women as incapable of making their own decisions. They are de facto second-class citizens. I call upon every member of Congress in the Pacific Northwest, including Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, to support every woman in the U.S. and co-sponsor four bills:
1. The Women’s Health Protection Act to codify Roe v. Wade.
2. The Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act to affirm the right to travel to receive legal abortion care, protecting patients, providers, and anyone else who helps someone travel for care.
3. The My Body, My Data act would protect personal reproductive data by creating a national standard for what data can be collected, saved or shared.
4. The Abortion Justice Act does that by addressing the systemic barriers and systemic racism in reproductive health care to ensure that everyone, everywhere can actually access care.
Lives are at stake.
