❤️ Reproductive Freedom for All — March 20, 2026
Reproductive Freedom for All — March 20, 2026: Hawley targets mifepristone, Kansas disguises an abortion ban, and the UK votes on abortion rights.
Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It
Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. In Missouri, Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced a federal bill that would strip the FDA's 25-year approval of mifepristone and make distributing the medication a federal crime in every state in the country. In Kansas, Sen. Mike Thompson is attempting to rewrite the state constitution to establish that life begins at conception — while labeling the measure an "equal rights amendment" on official Senate calendars, counting on voters not to read the fine print. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.
Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait
🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option
The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:
🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information
🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties
🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics
💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund
🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.
👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.
What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights
The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a Senate bill, a constitutional amendment filed under a misleading name, a parliamentary vote across an ocean. Each story looks local. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.
💊 Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces Bill to Revoke FDA Approval of Mifepristone — Nationwide
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced federal legislation directing the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone — a drug approved more than 25 years ago and now the most common method of abortion in the United States. The bill would make distributing mifepristone a violation of federal law and allow individuals to sue abortion drug manufacturers. Hawley’s legislation is backed by major anti-abortion organizations, including the Ethics and Public Policy Center, whose disputed paper claiming serious adverse events in nearly 11% of users was directly contradicted by the FDA’s own label and by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who found the agency’s approval decisions were grounded in science, not ideology. State-level legislation targeting medication abortion is simultaneously advancing in Alaska, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Dakota, and West Virginia. Truthout
Why This Matters: Mifepristone accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States and is also used to manage miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. Revoking FDA approval would not end abortion — it would end safe abortion and eliminate critical miscarriage care. This bill is doing exactly what it is designed to do: normalize the idea that a medication approved by scientists and used safely by millions should be subject to a Senate vote. Every day this sits in Congress, that window shifts. That is the strategy.
🎭 Kansas Republicans Are Disguising a Personhood Amendment as an “Equal Rights Amendment”
Kansas Sen. Mike Thompson introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 1623 — formally calling it an “equal rights amendment” in the bill text and in official Senate calendar listings, with no language clarifying it is an anti-abortion measure. What it actually does is amend the Kansas Constitution to declare that equal rights apply “beginning at conception,” establishing personhood at fertilization and opening the door to a total abortion ban. In 2022, Kansas voters defeated a nearly identical attempt by 59% to 41% — the first state to vote on abortion rights after Dobbs, and one of the most decisive rejections in the post-Roe era. Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes called the new resolution exactly what it is: proof that these politicians believe Kansas voters are either not paying attention or too naive to understand what is in front of them. Truthout
Why This Matters: Labeling a personhood amendment an “equal rights amendment” is not an oversight — it is a deliberate strategy. It mirrors what lawmakers in Missouri did when they framed a 2026 ballot measure to repeal existing abortion protections as though it expanded them. When direct attacks on reproductive freedom fail at the ballot box — and they have, repeatedly — the playbook shifts to misdirection. The antidote is exactly what Kansas organizers deployed in 2022: an informed, mobilized electorate that reads the fine print and shows up.
Why These Stories Matter
These stories are not independent events. They are the coordinated outputs of a single strategy: attack the medication, disguise the ballot measure, and make every avenue for abortion — pharmaceutical, legal, self-managed — harder to access and easier to prosecute. The people most harmed are always the same: low-income patients who cannot travel, rural residents with no clinic nearby, people managing miscarriage without safe medication options.
💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back
And yet the movement is not waiting. Kansas voters defeated this before and can defeat it again — if they know what they're voting on. People Power United and reproductive justice organizations across the country are making sure they do. Ballot initiatives protecting abortion access have passed in state after state since Dobbs. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.
What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act
The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.
The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights
The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.
What the WHPA does:
Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee
Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship
Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal
Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate
Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.
⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act
Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.
Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United
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