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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A health care provider’s personal beliefs should never dictate health care. Yet the federal Weldon Amendment allows personal beliefs, not patient health or the standard of care, to determine the care a patient receives.
For too long, the Weldon Amendment has prioritized personal beliefs over patient care and has served as a looming threat to states and localities seeking to protect access to abortion. Now, the threat is no longer theoretical – the Trump-Pence Administration weaponized the Weldon Amendment in unprecedented ways to penalize state actors that protect abortion access, and to deny patients access to critical care.
