Republican Lawmakers Can’t Stop Themselves from Advancing Anti-Abortion Extremism
Congressional Republicans Push National Abortion Ban Amid Government Shutdown Fight
WASHINGTON, DC –– Senate Republicans are once again using government funding negotiations to push their extreme anti-abortion agenda – this time demanding new restrictions as a condition to reopen the government. They won't stop until abortion is banned nationwide, while people's livelihoods and health care hang in the balance.
This attack from Republican lawmakers comes just one week after Americans overwhelmingly rejected anti-abortion extremism in key elections across the country. There is more evidence than ever before that protecting abortion is broadly popular with Americans of all backgrounds, but that isn’t stopping extremists from launching new attacks on reproductive freedom and spending millions to roll back our rights.
“Republican lawmakers are holding millions of people's health care hostage to advance their unpopular anti-abortion agenda,” said Veronica Ingham, Senior Campaigns Director for Free & Just. “Our country is facing a health care crisis, and Republicans' extreme anti-abortion agenda is putting lives at risk and making life hard for American women, patients, and working families across the country.”
Big Picture: While the country is facing a health care crisis, Trump and Republicans are charging ahead with their efforts to ban abortion nationwide.
Trump and his allies are making clear where their priorities lie. The Trump administration is charging ahead with efforts to dismantle access to one of the safest, most widely used medications in the country: the abortion medication, mifepristone. With families across the country holding their breath and waiting to learn the fate of their health care, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s so-called “investigation” into mifepristone continues. Anti-abortion extremists and the Trump administration are testing a national abortion ban through attacks on medication abortion, and no amount of human suffering will stop them.
If you are interested in connecting with patients, providers, or advocates about what continued attacks on abortion care mean for reproductive freedom, please contact Kelly Rimar (kelly@freeandjust.us).
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Free & Just is fighting to stop attacks on reproductive freedom and rights. We’re working with people across the country to share real stories to show the devastating consequences of attacks on our reproductive freedom. We all deserve the right to control our bodies and lives. That’s why we’re sharing our stories, raising our voices, and fighting for our future.