Our worst fears are confirmed

This is serious.

Late last night, news broke from a leaked Supreme Court opinion that Roe v. Wade will be overturned as early as this month.

This draft opinion confirms our worst fears. In a radical act of government overreach, the conservative majority of the United States Supreme Court has all but confirmed that it intends to overturn decades of settled legal precedent, which would deny millions of Americans their agency, humanity, life-saving healthcare, and reproductive freedom.

I want to make my stance clear: Everyone deserves access to quality healthcare and privacy to make deeply personal healthcare decisions with their doctors. That includes medically necessary and often life-saving procedures like abortion. 

We can’t underestimate the urgency of this moment. If action isn’t taken soon, abortion access will disappear all across the country — including in Kentucky, where we are already fighting a law that would effectively ban abortions in our Commonwealth. 

The United States Supreme Court has tacitly agreed that the death of millions of women — our daughters, our mothers, our loved ones — is not too high a cost to pay to advance their radical, dangerous, and shameful political agenda. It is absolutely critical that the Senate Majority show the leadership to abolish the filibuster now, and codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into law.

But here’s the thing. The reality is that because of senators like Rand Paul, it’s unlikely we’ll get the votes to take action. 

This is why we’re running against Rand Paul who has consistently upheld an anti-woman, anti-family agenda and voted against the protections we need to defend reproductive rights. This is why it’s so critical we expand our Senate majority and end the destructive filibuster that has blocked so many opportunities to protect abortion access in our country. And this is why I’m reaching out to you, to ask for your support.

I won’t stop fighting until Roe v. Wade is codified into law. But we must expand the Senate majority to ensure that happens. The only way we’re going to defeat Rand Paul, expand the Senate, and codify Roe v. Wade is if we work together for the next 188 days up until Election Day.

No matter what, we won’t back down. Together, we will fight to make sure everyone has the freedom to make deeply personal choices about their healthcare and their lives.

In solidarity,

Charles 

 

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