Greetings, Senator X,
This is X from X
I’ve emailed you previously and you would send responses, which was always appreciated, but I haven’t received responses in a while. I’ve written a few times on the anti-abortion bills 781, 933, and 1086, and used the ACLU site for contact, and hope these message are being delivered to your inbox, and not the junk folder :)
I did contact your office and briefly mentioned that and alerted your aide that I would send another email.
Since discussion of one of these bills will be happening soon, I wanted to reiterate that I expect you to vote NO to these and any bill that jeopardizes women’s access to safe, legal abortions.
I’ve collected 10 reasons you must oppose LBs 781, 933, and 1086: (Hopefully this makes it a little easier to peruse)
Those who insist abortions be made illegal are trying to put their religious beliefs into law that affects other people, and violates THEIR religious beliefs. We have separation of church and state for a reason.
No one can be forced to have an abortion against their will, and no should be forced to carry a pregnancy against their will. Banning abortions forces women to carry pregnancies against their will.
Pregnancy comes with many risks, the most severe being risk of death. If abortion is made illegal and pregnancies are required to be carried to term, that means women are not able to fully consent to the risks but are being sacrificed for an ideal by the state.
A person cannot be required to donate organ, tissue, or blood without consent, even if it saves another person’s life. This is still true after their death. Parallel to this is the obvious concept that a woman is not required to carry a pregnancy to term, even though the life of the fetus is in question.
Women are human beings and we have human rights and reproductive rights that mean we can choose if, how, and when to have children. Banning abortion is a violation of these rights.
Abortion is a medical procedure and may be brought into play for a number of reasons, even by women who had initially chosen to carry the pregnancy to term. Outlawing medical procedures because certain people don’t like them…. Is nonsensical.
Outlawing abortion does not end abortion, but ends safe abortions. Women’s lives are put at risk when safe procedures are wrongfully taken away.
Rapists in Nebraska have parental rights. This is unethical for one, but imagine a woman is raped and pregnancy is now required. You are possibly forcing women to co-parent or get in a custody battle with their rapists, who de facto, are not safe for children to be around. Why are women so despised that they have to suffer multiple indignities?
According to the ACLU, Nebraska ranks 50th in state funding for family planning services that reduce unintended pregnancies. This makes sense as Nebraskans are afraid to teach comprehensive sex education in schools. Parents have raised enough stink that even public schools teach abstinence only and refrain from teaching about contraception. Abstinence only is a farce. It endangers youth and withholds information they need. Abstinence only has been proven to lead to unsafe sex and unwanted pregnancies. So not only are teens NOT learning about how to prevent unwanted pregnancies, banning abortion means they have no choice and are being punished for engaging in sex. Let’s catch up with the rest of the world and stop denying our children actual information they need to operate in the real world.
We are wasting taxpayer time and money with each anti-choice anti-abortion law. Let’s do like Colorado and safeguard the right to abortion so women don’t have to constantly fight for our basic human rights.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message. You can guess this is a very important issue to me, and I do trust you will vote NO with these items in mind.
Thank you,
X
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