Dear John,

Not feeling the love this Valentine’s Day? Distracted from romantic daydreams by worrying about how you’ll pay for groceries during a trade war, or how long you can count on having access to birth control?

SAME. But John, some pretty high-profile men are clearly spending plenty of time thinking about us.

Men like Vice President J.D. Vance, who won’t stop talking about banning abortion nationwide. Or prospective Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who continued to lie and spread misinformation about vaccines and LGBTQIA+ kids right through his confirmation hearing. Or unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who is so obsessed with us he’s stealing our personal data, jobs, and rights.

If there’s one thing these men clearly love to do, it’s go after our bodies, our families, and our basic human rights. But if there’s one thing I love to do, it’s show men like Vance and Elon that they don’t control me—and what better way than to do that than by making a special Valentine’s Day donation in their honor to the National Women’s Law Center?

It’s the perfect match: you support lawyers and advocates fighting to protect our rights AND get to play heartbreaker by making it clear to Trump and his extremist friends that their outrageous attacks don’t scare us—they fuel us.

Every gift to the National Women’s Law Center helps us fight the Trump-Vance administration’s attacks in court, hold lawmakers and judges accountable, and work to expand access to abortion, protect LGBTQIA+ students and families, defend immigrant communities, and more.

Now that’s true love. Show men like J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and RFK Jr. that this Valentine’s Day, your real long-term commitment is to protecting our rights. Make your gift and send your Valentine now.

XOXO,

Uma Iyer
she/her/hers
Chief External Affairs Officer
National Women's Law Center