Reproductive Rights
Whatever happened to “small government,” Republicans? Texas Republicans have spent the past five decades chipping away at your personal rights and freedoms, exerting control over when and how you raise your family, worship, and live your life. Now, Texas Republicans have outlawed abortion, forcing thousands of women to support pregnancies and give birth against their will.
Whether or not you choose to have an abortion is just that–a choice. Kamala Harris and Texas Democrats will stand for freedom by ensuring nationwide abortion access.
Protecting Rights to Bodily Autonomy: Texas’s current abortion ban is among the most restrictive in the country, and its purposefully ambiguous exceptions have endangered countless women like Kate Cox who was unable to access an abortion in Texas despite life-threatening pregnancy complications. Democrats understand that the decision to seek abortion care is private, individual, and complicated–and that the last person who should be making these decisions for you should be a politician.
Reproductive Justice is Economic Justice: The Republican campaign to end abortion access was never about “saving children,” it was about controlling women. Last year, Republicans blocked a bill to protect access to birth control, revealing their extremist agenda. Whether and when a woman decides to become a mother has a direct affect on her economic future, and preserving contraception access is critical to achieving gender equality.
Actual Pro-Life Policies: Republicans say they are pro-life, but in states with abortion bans, mothers and infants are three times more likely to die. Democrats are fighting for actual pro-life policies, including expanding low-cost maternal and infant healthcare, championing affordable childcare and paid family leave, and ensuring that women have access to comprehensive sexual education and contraceptives.
