Help Us Fight Back Against Efforts to Roll Back Gender Justice
Extremist judges will not stop endangering the lives of pregnant people or people who may become pregnant—overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking medication abortion, threatening the future of IVF, and this week at SCOTUS, emergency abortion care.
Our lawyers are waging strategic fights that make clear what is at stake for people who can become pregnant and seek to bolster our fundamental rights to control our lives, futures, and destinies.
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You may have heard that we’re suing the Trump-Pence administration and the University of Notre Dame over their attacks on birth control, but you might not know the exact legal reasons why. Our gif(t) to you: everything they’re doing wrong, in gifs.
Remember that whole separation of church and state thing? Yeah, us too. But looks like Trump forgot: by promoting religious beliefs that object to birth control over those that don’t, his administration is violating the separation of church and state.
And you know how it’s 2018, so it’s illegal to discriminate against women (thanks, Equal Protection Clause!)? Trump’s rules only targeted coverage of women’s critical preventive services—aka birth control—while leaving men’s health care untouched. That’s illegal.
Then there’s the whole Fifth Amendment “No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” situation. That fundamental right to liberty? Yeah, it includes the right to make decisions about your body, including the decision to use birth control.
And finally, there’s this rule to govern how you make rules because of course there is. And it turns out, Trump violated nearly every one of those rules…on how to make a rule.