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As your constituent, I’m writing today to urge you to reject
any Trump nominee for the Supreme Court who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade
and turn back 45 years of progress since the landmark decision.
A recent poll showed that 67 percent of Americans do not
want Roe to be overturned. We’re the majority and we’re not going anywhere.
“El Salvador has a 'culture of life.'
There, abortion is banned for any reason. Estimates from the Ministry of Health
put the number of illegal abortions performed at 19,290 between 2005 and 2008.
However, it’s difficult to trace illegal activity properly, so some other
estimates claim this is closer to the annual average. We do know, from a 2011
study by the World Health Organization that 11 percent of the women undergoing
these illegal abortions die. That is, at the bare minimum, over 2,000 women.
"Amnesty International reports that
suicide now accounts for 57 percent of deaths of pregnant females ages 10-19 in
El Salvador. Because in an attempt to terminate their pregnancies, women are
'ingesting rat poison or other pesticides, and thrusting knitting needles,
pieces of wood and other sharp objects into the cervix.'
"It was not so long ago that women in
the United States were in a position similar to the one women in El Salvador
find themselves in today. Before the passage of Roe. Vs. Wade in 1973, it’s
estimated that between 250 and 8,000 American women were dying per year of
illegal abortions."
—Excerpt from Harpers
Bazaar
And for as much grief as we saw legislators give Obama’s
SCOTUS nominations, at the VERY least, voters deserve the opportunity to voice
their votes in November and let a TRULY representative legislature consider
nominations on our behalf.
Consider your constituency and vote NO on hasty Supreme
Court nominations.
