Women's Health Protection Act, Disarm Hate Act, and sexual assault in the military: Your civic action to-do list for 6-14-21
3. Every person—regardless of who they are and where they’re from—should be free to make the personal health decisions that are best for themselves, their lives, and their families, without political interference.
In a nutshell: Over the past several years state lawmakers have passed hundreds of restrictive laws making abortion care extremely difficult to access. The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) would create a legal right for health care providers to provide abortion care, and a right for their patients to receive that care, free from medically unnecessary restrictions that single out abortion and impede access.
Take action: WHPA was just reintroduced by Senators Blumenthal and Baldwin and Representatives Chu, Frankel, Pressley and Escobar. Email your senators and representative and ask that they support this important bill!
2. People convicted of hate crimes should NOT have access to firearms – it is commonsense!
In a nutshell: The Disarm Hate Act closes the hate crimes loophole by prohibiting the sale of firearms to anyone convicted of assaulting someone based on their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Take action: This bill will be introduced in both chambers of Congress this week. Use our easy online system to email your elected officials and ask that they co-sponsor the Disarm Hate Act.
1. For a decade, Congress has known the current military justice system doesn’t provide the protection and support survivors of sexual assault desperately need.
In a nutshell: The bipartisan Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act would move the decision to prosecute major crimes like sexual assault and murder from military commanders to military prosecutors who are not in the survivors’ chain of command.
Take action: The chair and vice-chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee are holding up a vote on this important bill. Email your senators and tell them to put pressure on Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and James Inhofe (R-OK) to pass the bill out of committee.