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The pro-choice community supports guaranteeing the right to choose through the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).
- We launched this effort to enact a federal law that will protect a woman’s right to choose because our constitutional right is in dire peril.
- Since it was first introduced in 1989, FOCA has received bipartisan support in the House and Senate.
- A woman’s right to choose abortion hangs by a thread on the Supreme Court. Learn more about choice in the courts.
- Since Roe v. Wade, a woman’s right to choose has been systematically dismantled by anti-choice legislators in many states. In fact, more than 500 anti-choice measures have been enacted in the states since 1995, essentially rolling back this fundamental right for many women. Check out Who Decides? to learn about anti-choice laws in your state.
- Legislators in 21 states could enact sweeping bans on abortion if the Supreme Court reverses Roe and allows states to re-criminalize abortion, menacing doctors and their patients with the threat of criminal investigation, prosecution, and even imprisonment.
- FOCA will restore the reproductive rights recognized under the vision expressed in 1973 in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, before anti-choice legislators and courts chipped away at these rights.
- FOCA will secure the right to choose by establishing a federal law that will guarantee reproductive freedom for future generations of American women. This guarantee will protect women’s rights even if Roe v. Wade is reversed.
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