Call to Action: January 28, 2018

STOP ATTACKING WOMEN’S RIGHTS 

#NoAbortionBan #ProtectRoe #StopTheBans

Instead of working towards a DREAM Act, Mitch McConnell is spending precious time attacking women’s rights. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1922), based on disproven theories that a 20-week fetus can feel pain https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-gops-20-week-abortion-ban-is-about-politics-not-science/, is up for a vote tomorrow http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/370613-mcconnell-tees-up-vote-on-20-week-abortion-bill .

This unconstitutional bill continues the GOP and Trump administration anti-women policies:
–rolling back birth control mandate https://www.vogue.com/article/trump-white-house-birth-control-mandate
–changing HHS’s strategic plan to defines life as “beginning at conception.”
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/13/16449724/trump-hhs-abortion-pro-life-conception
–denying legal abortion access to teen immigrants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/two-more-pregnant-immigrant-teens-in-custody-ask-judge-to-allow-abortions/2017/12/17/fc8aba7a-d5f7-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.70d071c1cefd
–ending funding to prevent teen pregnancy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/09/07/trump-administration-cuts-funding-for-teen-pregnancy-prevention-programs-here-are-the-serious-consequences/?utm_term=.190cb312539e

S. 1922 would only address 1.3% of abortions and contains no exceptions for medical conditions. Women carrying a non-viable fetus or suffering serious health conditions exacerbated by pregnancy would have to carry a fetus to term.
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/353231-congress-should-oppose-the-20-week-abortion-ban

Access to reproductive care equals economic justice for women by allowing for:
—economic empowerment: improving women’s wages 
–educational opportunities: helping women to attend and stay in college 
–reductions in child poverty 
–a decrease in ovarian and endometrial cancer deaths 
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/1614/3275/8659/BC_factsheet_may2015_updated_1.pdf

America can’t realize its full potential if women don’t have economic justice. Oregon’s Democratic MoCs understand this and are staunch reproductive rights advocates
https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/916330425127178242,
https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/916334276278411265,
https://twitter.com/repblumenauer/status/915310239557328901,
https://bonamici.house.gov/press-release/bonamici-votes-against-unconstitutional-dc-abortion-ban,
https://twitter.com/RepSchrader/status/916327158510968832,
https://www.defazioforcongress.org/2016/10/18/my-opponents-views-womens-rights/

Stop Senate Bill 1922!

**ACTION 1: CALL OUR SENATORS TODAY—leave a message before the Monday vote** 

SAMPLE SCRIPT:  
“My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am very concerned about the GOP’s relentless efforts to curtail a woman’s right to choose. S. 1922, which bans abortion after 20 weeks, is up for a vote tomorrow (Monday). Please do everything you can, including a filibuster, to ensure that this bill never makes it to the President’s desk. Women’s rights to reproductive freedom are in your hands. Thank you.”

**ACTION 2: SHARE WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY**

Share this post with friends and family. Help them ask their Senators to do all they can to stop a 20 week abortion ban (S. 1922) and protect women’s rights

SENATOR MERKLEY 
Portland: (503) 326-3386, DC: (202) 224-3753
Salem: (503) 362-8102, Eugene: (541) 465-6750
Medford: (541) 608-9102, Bend: (541) 318-1298
Pendleton: (541) 278-1129
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/contact/

SENATOR WYDEN 
Portland: (503) 326-7525, DC: (202) 224-5244
Salem: (503) 589-4555, Eugene: (541) 431-0229
Medford: (541) 858-5122, Bend: (541) 330-9142
La Grande: (541) 960-7691
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/