Rally for Choice in Raleigh on Wednesday (copied from my email)
I am writing today to see if you can join me this coming Wednesday for an hour at the NCGA in support of a fundamental right of all women. Last week, a bill was introduced into the North Carolina General Assembly that would dramatically cut access to safe and legal abortions in our state by imposing unnecessary requirements on doctors who operate clinics. This bill is one in a series of far right bills designed to take away the right of women to make the decisions surrounding pregnancy for themselves and to give control over these decisions to politicians instead -- politicians like Thom Tillis, Phil Berger, Warren Daniel, Paul Stam and Pat McCrory. What right do these men have to make the family planning decisions for North Carolina's women?
This is a dangerous road lawmakers are taking us down and it needs to stop now. Please join me this coming Wednesday at noon on the Halifax Mall behind the NCGA on Jones Street as Progress North Carolina stands with Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other partners in support of a woman's right to safe and legal abortion if she chooses. The rally only lasts an hour and it's important -- the ability to make this intensely personal decision is the root of a woman's right to control her own life. We cannot have equality for women if politicians are allowed to make this decision for us. Please re-arrange your schedule, take a long lunch, do whatever it takes to join us in sending lawmakers a message: this is not your decision to make.
You do not have to be pro-abortion to recognize that it is not our job, or the job of lawmakers, to make this decision for other women. There will be people at the rally who would not choose abortion for themselves -- but they recognize that this is a decision each woman has the right to make for herself. Please, let's keep that right. Let's trust the women of North Carolina. Stand with us on Wednesday.
Please feel free to save and share the image above on Facebook or elsewhere to help spread the word or simply to show you agree with us that this issue is important. And if you can make the rally, please send me an email at katymunger@progressnc.org letting me know you plan to be there. Just look for the Progress North Carolina banner Wednesday at noon on the Halifax Mall and join us. Together we stand, divided we fall.
Sincerely,
Katy Munger
Progress North Carolina
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