Support & Re-Introduce Women’s Health Protection Act

Today I take pen in hand to write and urge you in the strongest possible terms to protect women’s right to choose and re-introduce the Women’s Health Protection Act.   Protecting abortion access from medically unnecessary restrictions that obstruct the right of all persons to obtain safe, legal abortion services, the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) is vital to counter the onslaught of state-level abortion bans and restrictions that cause significant and sometimes insurmountable challenges to receiving abortion care and risk all women’s health in every state.   Besides the need to protect human rights and a woman’s rights to choose, it’s also a need to stop a host of discriminatory practices that come along with interfering with the private lives of women in the United States. Without this bill, discriminatory practices will cause significant harm to:   1.     All medical practices by interfering with the relationship between doctors, hospitals, clinics and other care facilities and their patients. 2.     Economic security of families and individuals. 3.     Without action, these discriminatory practices will perpetuate a system of oppression and ful the full enjoyment of human and civil rights.   With this bill, we need to create a new vision of reproductive justice and the right to bodily autonomy, to have children or to choose not to, and to parent the children we have in safe and supportive communities.   Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please work to re-introduce this bill and co-sponsor it until it can be passed.