John—Did you see our email on Friday? The Supreme Court is taking up reproductive rights, and it's all hands on deck to keep abortion accessible. Will you donate $15 to help launch our campaign?

John,

The Supreme Court just announced it will hear the first major abortion case since Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

The case involves Louisiana's clinic shutdown law, which, if upheld, would give states a road map for eliminating access to abortion by simply shutting down almost every abortion clinic in the state. Just three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that these kinds of clinic shutdown laws were an unconstitutional violation of abortion rights.

But that was before Brett Kavanaugh. Now, the court could reverse its 2016 Whole Woman's Health decision and allow states to effectively end abortion by simply making it unavailable.

This is the most dangerous moment for abortion rights since Roe v. Wade was decided. Will you donate $15 to help launch our all-hands-on-deck campaign to keep abortion accessible?

When Texas passed its clinic shutdown law in 2013, almost all of the state's abortion providers were forced to close down. These kinds of laws, sometimes called TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers), aim to shut down clinics by imposing a web of frivolous and burdensome regulations, including rules on the width of hallways, the size of closets, and admitting privileges at nearby hospitals — which are entirely medically unnecessary and often impossible for many abortion providers to adhere to.

If the Kavanaugh Supreme Court overrules the precedent of striking down clinic shutdown laws, it will be a fatal blow to abortion access in at least half the country.¹ Even more women will be forced to travel incredible distances to access abortion care, and some women will not be able to access care at all.

To save access to abortion, we need to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, a bill in Congress to ensure that abortion rights and access are protected from all sorts of anti-choice restrictions. We also need to keep fighting state by state against new abortion bans and clinic shutdown laws. And we need to organize massive protests at the Supreme Court when the case is heard next year.

Above all, we must defeat Donald Trump in 2020 to end his stacking of the courts with far-right ideologues. Will you donate to help fight back and keep abortion accessible?

Yes, I'll donate $15 to help stop Brett Kavanaugh from ending access to safe and legal abortion.

Thank you for all you do for reproductive freedom,

Ilyse Hogue
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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1. The Supreme Court just announced it will hear the first big abortion case of the Kavanaugh era, Vox, October 4, 2019.

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