Posted on 06/21/2023 10:34:59 AM PDT by Parmy
Dear friend,
It’s been almost one year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ripped away a woman’s fundamental right to make her own health care decisions—a direct result of a decades-long attack by Republicans to drag women’s rights back by nearly half a century.
Since then, the consequences of this ruling have been swift and cruel. Our nation is experiencing a full-blown health care crisis. Women across the country have been denied the health care they need—often putting their lives at risk. In just one year, Republican politicians have stripped 22 million women and counting of their ability to get an abortion in their home state. 14 states have implemented complete bans and another 6 now impose other limits on access to abortion. Another 9 states have tried to ban abortion, with those bans being temporarily blocked in court.
These radical policies aren’t only forcing women to stay pregnant—jeopardizing their health, and in many cases, their lives—they are also limiting people’s access to birth control and miscarriage care, jeopardizing Americans’ ability to access IVF services to start a family, and keeping patients from accessing other routine treatment and medications they rely on.
And they aren’t stopping there—Republicans in Congress even introduced a national abortion ban last year that would rip away the right to abortion for women in all 50 states, including Washington state. That same bill also threatened doctors with up to five years in prison for providing abortion care. That’s just cruel.
Since even before Roe was overturned, I have worked nonstop to block Republicans in Congress from advancing their extreme agenda. In this Congress, I’ve introduced or am helping lead legislation to:
Restore Roe and the right to abortion in all 50 states. Protect the right to birth control. Make sure women have the right to travel across state lines to receive abortion care. Expand access to family planning services. Protect our servicemembers and veterans’ access to reproductive health care. Ensure people’s online health and location data is protected and cannot be used against them. Expand access to abortion coverage for people on government-sponsored health care plans. Help medical students receive critical training in abortion care—even if they have to travel from out of state to get it. And I’ve stood up on the Senate floor a countless number of times to block efforts from Republicans to restrict reproductive health care.
While this has been an incredibly difficult year, we cannot let our guard down. Republicans are not slowing down—they are hell-bent on ripping away women’s rights in every state and every community. So, we can’t slow down either.
I refuse to accept a world where my daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than I did. I refuse to accept a world where women’s lives are being put at risk because some politician thinks they know better than her about what’s best for her body. And I refuse to let national Republicans disregard the rights of people in Washington state who have made clear they support the right to abortion.
I am in this for the long haul, and I hope you’ll join me in the fight to restore Roe and our reproductive rights.
In service,
Patty Murray United States Senator for Washington state
Well, here’s my two cents, patty. You can go bleep yourself.
“In just one year, Republican politicians have stripped 22 million women and counting of their ability to get an abortion in their home state.”
What a bunch of tripe!!!!
Patty has the reputation as literally having the most innately low IQ of the entire Senate. And that’s saying something.
That’s all kkkommiecrats do, they lie, cheat, steal and con.
Satan’s daughter
Too many babies surviving now. Libtards have their panties in a wad
Screw them
One of them, anyways.
Starts off with a lie ...
IMHO, the idiot always looked retarded..
sounds like she was chewing on the arm of an aborted fetus when she wrote this...
“since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ripped away a woman’s fundamental right to make her own health care decisions”
Ripped away you say? Odd turn of phrase.
This B-word is behind the times. Overturning abortion is no longer the big deal of the day. She needs to get on board with transgender rights to mutilate young children with puberty blockers and even surgery.
Just like the Holocaust.
I’m not sure what you mean by that. Please explain.
Adolf Hitler lied and blamed the problems of Germany on the Jews.
Euphemism for ending the life of an unborn human being for non-medical reasons.
Indeed.
She has staff write that garbage since she is incapable of rational thought on either side of her brain.
Abortion is not women’s health care.
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