Abortion care is essential health care. Everyone should have the right and the ability to make their own decisions about reproductive health care, including whether to have an abortion.
But religious extremists and their lawmaker allies have been trying to end legal abortions since Roe v. Wade, often citing their personal religious beliefs as justification for abortion bans and policies that restrict abortion access. AU works with the reproductive rights community to ensure that religion is not used to deny access to abortion.
In AU lawsuits against the Trump-era Denial of Care Rule, health experts said inviting health care providers to deny care because of their religious beliefs would further reduce access to abortions and other reproductive care.
Elected officials, including former Vice President Pence and state legislators across the country, have tried to impose their personal religious beliefs on all of us through anti-abortion policies.
More than 60% of people who have had abortions claim a religious affilation, according to a Guttmacher Institute study.
Okla. is violating the separation of church and state by creating the nation’s 1st religious charter school. If we don’t stop them, religious public schools like this could appear in states around the country. Join the fight:
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