Lucas,
sign the petition to President Obama: Eliminate abortion funding restrictions
from the 2017 budget.
For far too long, anti-choice politicians have interfered in reproductive health decisions by banning insurance coverage for abortion care. These bans push safe and affordable abortion care out of reach for those struggling to make ends meet.
This falls hardest on those who already face significant barriers to quality health care, such as low-income women, immigrant women, young women, women of color, and transgender and gender-nonconforming people.
In fact, restricting Medicaid coverage of abortion forces one in four poor women seeking abortion services to carry her pregnancy to term.
A movement led by people of color, young people, and reproductive and economic justice advocates is rising up against these restrictions. Now, we’re calling on President Obama to take a bold stand against the Hyde Amendment and related abortion funding restrictions by eliminating them from his Fiscal Year 2017 budget.
Sign the petition now.
Keep fighting,
Michael Langenmayr, Daily Kos