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Statement

Moms Grateful for U.S. House Passage of Women’s Health Protection Act. With States Adopting Draconian Abortion Bans and SCOTUS Failing to Protect Our Rights, U.S. Senate Must Do Same.

September 24, 2021
Reproductive Justice

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on U.S. House of Representatives passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act:

“Today, the U.S. House of Representatives took an essential step to protect women’s health and rights, dignity and autonomy, by passing the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) of 2021. This bill will protect access to abortion care for everyone in this country, no matter where they live. Its enactment is especially important for low-income women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, and other vulnerable communities who are suffering grave harm from S.B. 8, Texas’ draconian six-week abortion ban, which denies pregnant people basic health care and invites anti-choice vigilantes to use the courts to harass and intimidate health care providers.

“Most people who have abortions in this country are moms. We must be able to determine if, when and how many children to have, and to make the deeply personal decisions about abortion care without interference from politicians or the public.

“America’s moms are counting on the U.S. Senate to join the U.S. House in passing the WHPA. We can no longer count on the courts to protect our health and rights.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.