1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am your constituent and I want you to know that it is time for you to get the Women’s Health Protection Act up for a vote. It is S. 701/H.R. 12. Women are being abused and treated as 2nd class citizens without bodily autonomy and that is disgraceful. Think of discharge petitions, rules suspension, something but get this going. Lives are at risk and you are the only cavalry that can come to the rescue. I want you to also know that our culture has shifted in the last 50 years. When a pregnant person presents to a doctor with a serious health concern, her health and rights are not always the doctor’s first concern, as they should be. Delaying treatment while considering the fetus can be deadly for the woman. Here you can read about Layla Houshmond, PhD, who lost sight in one eye to that kind of delay. Here is her story in her own words, https://jessica.substack.com/p/guest-post-restore-roe-isnt-enough. You can help repair this too by demanding that medical and nursing schools, who receive federal funding, train students in treating women first. This kind of training has been shown to work in overcoming the inherent bias treating people of color differently with respect to managing pain, and it can work here too. Please get on it as there is no reason to force women to suffer needlessly. Thank you”