Across the country, we are seeing attacks on women’s sexual freedom, from the defunding of programs allowing women to receive vital health care services and accurate information, even when they cannot afford them, to employers being given the right to determine the reproductive choices available to their employees.

The majority of attacks on the sexual and reproductive freedoms of women have been based on government-sanctioned religious interpretation, directly violating separation of religion and state.

There is no freedom more intimate than the freedom over one’s own body. All medical decisions should be private and of a person’s own free will, including choices about family planning and safe abortion access.

We must vigorously oppose all efforts to dismantle reproductive rights or roll back historic protections for women and our families.