We own our bodies.
Because we have agency over our bodies, we make healthcare decisions like: abortion, birth control, disease prevention, nutrition, exercise, and gender-affirming surgery, with trusted medical professionals.
No one has the right to stand between us and these fundamental decisions that do not negatively impact public health, nor does anyone have the right to such private medical information, much less weaponize it against us like Republican attorneys general have decided to do in 19 states.
Agency of our bodies is paramount because, as demonstrated in Texas through Kate Cox’s heartbreaking story, when legislators, who have no medical expertise, force draconian abortion laws that prioritize an unviable fetus over the life of a mother threatened by miscarriage, she must leave the State to survive.
Congress MUST enshrine reproductive freedom into law to protect these basic rights for all Americans.
Resources:
- Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL)
- Karen Cox’s Story
- The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Anatomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
- 19 Republican state attorneys general, demand that the Biden administration allow states with abortion bans to obtain the private medical records of patients seeking legal health care in other states.
Beth Farnham for Congress 