Tell your Representatives to hold a House vote on the Women's Health Protection Act
Note: only one of the following two Congresswomen represents you. To find out which one, click here.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
Call the SF office first, but try the DC office if you can’t get through. If you get voicemail, hang up and try a few more times to talk to a real person. Don’t give up! Short direct messages are most effective. Hate the phone? Resistbot is your friend.
Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
Email Contact: https://speier.house.gov/email-jackie
Keep calling if you don’t get through. Voicemails are logged daily into a central report across offices. Hate the phone? Resistbot is your friend.
Note: Due to shelter-in-place orders during the Covid-19 emergency, it may be more effective to use email or Resistbot to contact the MoC’s office. It is important to use your own words in emails to elected officials, but feel free to use our sample script below as a guide.
Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
[For Pelosi]: I am calling to urge Speaker Pelosi to hold a floor vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act.
[For Speier]: I am calling to thank Representative Speier for cosponsoring the Women’s Health Protection Act, and urge her to advocate for a floor vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act.
Background
We've asked people to call/tweet/email about the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in the past – in fact, Indivisible SF has signed on as a supporting organization. As the pandemic gives more states more excuses to limit access to abortion, it's time to speak up again and insist that the House vote on this critical bill that prohibits medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion care and protects people's rights to make their own decisions about their own bodies.
The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) is a federal bill that would protect the right to access abortion care by creating a safeguard against bans and medically unnecessary restrictions that apply to no similar medical care. These harmful restrictions are threatening to eliminate access to abortion care in large swaths of the country, and prevent people from making personal decisions about their health, their lives, and their futures.
The Women’s Health Protection Act would protect access to abortion care from:
Bans on abortion prior to viability that are a direct violation of constitutional rights confirmed by Roe v. Wade;
Requirements that doctors provide medically inaccurate and, at times, false information to people seeking abortion care;
Restrictions on the ability to access medication abortion in the earliest weeks of pregnancy;
State-mandated medical procedures and protocols, such as forcing pregnant people to undergo ultrasounds and endure waiting periods for no medical reason, as a way to shame them for their personal decisions.
The bill has more than 200 co-sponsors in the House, including Jackie Speier is already a sponsor. As Speaker, Nancy Pelosi can't sign on as a sponsor, but can bring it to the floor for a vote.
For more on the Women’s Health Protection Act, check out the Act for Women campaign.