Demand Congress reject the new Republican plan to restrict abortion!

Congress just got a brutal reminder that Republicans were never concerned about "taxpayer-funded abortion." Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Mike Rounds made that crystal clear this week when they announced their terms for extending ACA subsidies: expanded abortion restrictions on insurance plans. The Hyde Amendment, which has banned federal funding for abortion since 1977, isn't enough for them anymore. They want to block both private insurance plans sold on ACA marketplaces (even when people pay for that coverage with their own money) and state-funded Medicaid plans from covering abortion at all. It's not about federal funding.

This isn't a healthcare negotiation. This is the blueprint for a national abortion ban. Republicans are holding healthcare subsidies hostage to force abortion restrictions into federal law. They're weaponizing the ACA to make abortion insurance coverage effectively illegal, state by state, plan by plan, until access collapses entirely. You don't need a dramatic 6-week ban bill when you can quietly strangle access through budget reconciliation.

Demand Congress reject the new Republican plan to restrict abortion!

If this plan succeeds, millions of Americans will lose abortion coverage through their insurance, including coverage they pay for themselves. This goes far beyond the Hyde Amendment's restrictions on federal funding. This is about eliminating both private insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for abortion care, making the procedure unaffordable and inaccessible for people across the country. Republicans just admitted what we've known all along: they were never worried about taxpayer dollars. They want abortion banned, period.

Congress needs to hear from us right now. Sign this petition demanding they reject any healthcare deal that includes abortion restrictions. We will not let Republicans use insurance subsidies as leverage to ban abortion nationally. Not now. Not ever.

Demand Congress reject the new Republican plan to restrict abortion!

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