Tuesday, April 9 - 2024 Election Postcards / Protect IVF Access

Actions You Can Take

Action 1: 2024 Presidental Election Postcards

Starting April 22, Indivisible Evanston will distribute postcards for the Postcards to Swing States campaign — writing postcards to Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina to be mailed October 24th. The postcards and instructions will be provided. You write the cards and supply the stamps. Choose from two pick-up locations in Evanston and two in the Northern suburbs.

Sign up to pick up postcards!

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Action 2: Protect IVF Access

The Alabama Supreme Court recently issued a radical ruling endangering access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). This cruel decision has plunged the state into legal and medical chaos as IVF services are halted, patients scramble to understand their treatment options, and families grapple with what the decision means for their futures.

This anti-family court ruling is the result of the decades-long campaign by Republican anti-abortion extremists to not only overturn Roe vs. Wade, but to also ban contraception, IVF, gender-affirming care, marriage equality, and more. They must be stopped.

We need to pass the Access to Family Building Act, a bill introduced by Sen. Tammy Duckworth that would create a federal right to IVF and related services and protect patients and doctors from being criminalized for trying to start or grow a family. Specifically, the bill would:

  • Establish a statutory right to access assisted reproductive technology services, such as IVF, without government interference

  • Establish a patient’s right to have control over their own reproductive genetic materials, including their embryos

  • Allow enforcement by the Department of Justice or through a private right of action for individuals and doctors

Reproductive freedom means the power to decide for yourself whether, when, and how to build a family. This shouldn’t be controversial. But MAGA Republicans love to weaponize the judiciary to change policies that would be too unpopular to enact through the legislative process, and that’s what happened in Alabama.

Tell Senator Durbin to cosponsor the Access to Family Building Act to protect IVF and call for a vote on the bill.

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