Subject: The most important abortion ruling in a generation (add your name)
From: Debbie Wasserman Schultz <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:39:36 -0500

The Democratic Party
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John --

Forty-three years ago, the Supreme Court affirmed that women 
in this country have the constitutional right to make our own 
reproductive health decisions. Today, the Supreme Court 
heard arguments in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, a 
case involving abortion restrictions in Texas that would force 
the majority of abortion clinics in the state to shut down.

This has the potential to be the most important abortion ruling 
in a generation. If the Court rules against us -- or splits 4-4 on 
this decision -- the state's restrictions will be upheld, not only 
denying many Texas women access to legal abortion services 
in their own state, but also cementing restrictions in other states 
within the Fifth Circuit and opening the door for new Texas-like 
restrictions in other states.

It's a tough pill to swallow that despite how far women have 
come on so many fronts over the last four decades, our access 
to reproductive health care in this country still largely depends 
on where we live or what we can afford:

http://my.democrats.org/Let-Her-Choose

Since 1973, the campaign to undo the progress we made in 
Roe v. Wade has been unrelenting. This past year alone, my 
Republican colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives 
voted seven times to defund Planned Parenthood, threatening 
to deny millions of women access to safe, reliable, and 
affordable care. And as we saw all too viscerally in the horrific 
armed attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado 
Springs in November, physical and psychological assaults on 
providers are creating a climate of fear and hostility, 
attempting to deter women from getting the care to which they 
are entitled. 

In the past five years, states have passed more than 280 abortion 
restrictions, forcing closures of clinics and creating real barriers 
to women's ability to access safe and affordable reproductive 
health care. Shutting down or cutting funding for places like 
Planned Parenthood will only increase the number of unplanned 
pregnancies and the need for abortions -- whether they're legal 
or not.

The reproductive rights of women in America are at risk. Plain and 
simple. And John, we are one election away from turning back 
the clock even further. 

It's up to us to fight as hard as we ever have to elect leaders who 
understand what's at stake. Add your name if you're ready to do 
the work it takes to stand against Republican extremism in 2016:

http://my.democrats.org/Let-Her-Choose

When I think about the world I want our daughters to live in, it's one 
where their rights are inviolable and their independence is valued. 
It's a moral outrage when legislatures full of male politicians interfere 
in women's health care decisions. Today the Court will weigh in on 
whether we will continue down this dangerous road, but it's up to 
us in November to make sure we don't allow women's reproductive 
freedom to be threatened any further.

Debbie

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Chair
Democratic National Committee

 

 

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