Tomorrow, the Senate will once again vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). If passed, the Act (S. 1975) would protect and codify the abortion rights first secured in Roe v. Wade.
Contact your senators now to tell them to protect abortion care!
We know, based on the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that the Supreme Court is seriously considering overturning Roe v. Wade, which protects a person’s right to abortion and has stood for nearly half a century. Many states are already making plans to ban abortion altogether if Roe falls, leaving millions across the country without access to care, and disproportionally affecting people of color and low-income communities.
Additionally, the court seems likely to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week ban in Dobbs or ban abortion completely. Any law anywhere that restricts the rights of patients or doctors to receive or provide abortion care is unacceptable. The right of people to make their own decisions about their bodies, their families, and their futures, is an essential right and we must protect it. That’s why we need Congress to pass WHPA. The need to pass this crucial legislation is more important than ever.
Please take two minutes and contact your senators to urge them to vote YES on WHPA.
This historic moment must be matched by historic levels of engagement. I’m asking you to contact your senators today. Urge them to stand with the vast majority of Americans and vote YES on Wednesday.
Equal access to abortion care everywhere is vital to social and economic equality, reproductive autonomy, and the right to determine our own lives. So, please take two minutes to contact your senators today.
The House already stood up for abortion rights by passing WHPA last year. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. They need to hear from humanists that no state or local government has the right to place limitations and restrictions on bodily autonomy, self-determination, or sovereignty.
