Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D. NV) U.S. Senate campaign:
Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for 43 years, but now there’s a case in front of the Supreme Court that could gut a woman’s fundamental right to choose.
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a case regarding Texas’ harsh restrictions on women’s health services, threatens to jeopardize millions of women’s access to family planning clinics in 22 states. And if that isn’t scary enough, the case will be decided by a Court down one justice.
Without access to family planning services, we risk women taking matters into their own hands because they’re desperate and have no options. This is dangerous and unacceptable, and it’s why I’m calling on you to help me keep fighting for a woman’s right to make her own decisions about her body.
Will you join me in demanding the Supreme Court uphold a woman’s right to choose?
The 2013 Texas law effectively closed 21 out of 40 family planning clinics, forcing some women to travel 150 miles or more to the nearest, safest clinic. And if the Court rules the wrong way, it would shut down even more.
As the U.S. Solicitor General argued, the Texas law dramatically decreased women’s access to family planning clinics. He even said that if there’s still a woman’s right to choose, this law cannot stand – and I couldn’t agree more.
It’s shameful to use politically motivated tactics like these at the risk of rolling back decades of progress for women’s health. It’s been nearly 100 years since women earned the right to vote, yet we’re still fighting for the right to make the most significant and fundamental decisions about our health. Enough is enough.
Will you stand with me and demand anti-choice extremists stop playing politics with women’s health?
Thank you for standing up for women’s health,
Catherine
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