Since the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, increasingly restrictive abortion bans have been passed across the country, putting the lives of pregnant people in peril. Historically economically marginalized populations including Black communities, other people of color, and low-income communities are placed in even greater harm because of diminished access to reproductive healthcare.
The best thing that Congress can do in the face of these circumstances is to pass federal legislation to safeguard access to abortion and the full range of reproductive healthcare. This includes protections from political or religious interference and a bar on state and federal legislation that imposes medically unnecessary regulations on access to abortion services including medication, mandatory waiting periods, or out-and-out abortion bans. Last Congress the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) was passed in the House. We need legislation like WHPA to be reintroduced in this Congress.
We must remain committed to preserving and protecting access to the full range of reproductive health care – including legal abortion – as an imperative rooted in our deeply-held faith beliefs in social justice, moral agency, and religious liberty for all. Please contact your elected leaders to ask them to introduce and support legislation protecting an individual’s right to access abortion and the full range of reproductive healthcare access.