We must keep fighting back for our reproductive freedom

No matter what — Ayanna Pressley is going to keep up the fight for reproductive freedom everywhere, for everyone. If you can, pitch in $25 or anything you can today to power this unapologetic fight for abortion rights.

Movement family,

Three years after the Supreme Court denied our bodily autonomy and ripped away the basic right to abortion care in America, the devastating outcomes are still reverberating across our country. Now, we face a hostile Administration doubling down on ripping away essential healthcare.

Today, I want to tell you about a mother named Adriana Smith.

Adriana Smith, who was a 30-year-old nurse and a mother to a vibrant six-year-old son.

She was sent home from the hospital without the care she needed. She woke up gasping for air, returned back to the hospital, and shortly thereafter, was declared brain dead. The blood clots the doctors had missed had claimed her life.

Adriana’s pain was dismissed, and her son was robbed of a mother. And because of an extreme abortion ban in Georgia, the hospital stated they could not take her off of life support.

She was nine weeks pregnant, only about a month after a missed period.

The hospital made her body an incubator and denied her family the right to make sensitive medical decisions.

Across this nation, abortion bans are a threat to all of us and our loved ones. And the impact on Black and brown families, disabled and LGBTQ+ folks have been severe.

Now Republicans are doubling down. Their Big, Ugly Bill would devastate reproductive healthcare: destroying Medicaid as we know it, defunding Planned Parenthood health centers, and barring private insurers on the ACA marketplace from offering abortion coverage — including in states like Massachusetts.

As we mark this somber anniversary, we must do everything to protect our reproductive freedom and advance an affirmative vision for a just America where abortion justice is realized.

That starts with preventing Trump and Republicans’ shameful Big Ugly Bill from putting health care further out of reach for millions and stopping it in its tracks as it makes its way through the Senate.

This unjust status quo is not an inevitability.

A more just America is possible. An America where abortion justice is realized and everyone — no matter their zip code, income, or immigration status — can access the care they need with dignity in their own community.

We must defeat this Big Ugly Bill before it dismantles essential health care in America, and we must keep pushing for comprehensive policies like my Abortion Justice Act, the Women’s Health Protection Act, and the EACH Act to protect and expand abortion access and affirm our fundamental rights.”

Another world is possible. And together, we’ll keep building the more just America our communities deserve — one where our children have every right and freedom that we grew up with and more.

In Solidarity,

Ayanna