Target: Mark Gordon, Governor of Wyoming
Goal: Support women’s right to decide on abortion.
The Wyoming senate is in the discussion about a comprehensive anti-abortion bill. House Bill 152 (Life is a Human Right Act) intends to amplify the scope of a trigger law passed in the 2022 legislative session. The trigger law, House Bill 92, makes an exception for abortion, but under circumstances that are necessary to save the life of the mother and for treatment procedures that unintentionally leads to the injury or death of the fetus. The new bill (HB 152) intends to bypass the power of the judiciary by allowing lawmakers to intervene in potential court litigations challenging the law. People who signed in favor of the bill have made the audacious claim that abortion is not health care. The signers also hold the view that a woman has no right to be the final voice in deciding whether to keep the unborn child.
In terms of bodily autonomy and privacy, pregnancy is perhaps the greatest decision by a woman. Proponents of abortion cite the rising costs of healthcare, of raising a child, and a willingness to terminate the pregnancy based on health concerns. Amnesty International designates access to safe abortion as a fundamental human right and a health care privilege. The debate around the abortion ban preemptively relies on the argument that it is against God’s law. However, even when one cites the moral angle, the Bible intervenes. It might come as a shock for the unversed that the Holy B00k, at places, enacts commandments in favor of abortions. Verses Job 3: 10 and Jeremiah 20: 17 state it is better not to be born than to suffer a life of misery.
Maybe, it’s high time that those against abortion stop using the ‘pro-life jihad’ to make it unsafe for women. Denying that ‘abortion is healthcare’ and terming ‘life is a human right’ is self-contradictory based on vested moral arguments. The final decision on whether to keep a child should always be on the primary caregiver carrying the womb.
Support the liberty of women to decide what to do with their bodies. Sign the petition to urge the Wyoming senate in preventing the bill from becoming law.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Governor Gordon,
The Senate Agriculture, State, and Public Lands & Water Committee recently heard House Bill 152. The bill proposes to amplify the scope of a trigger law (HB 92) passed last year to enact a comprehensive ban on abortion by targeting healthcare providers. Signers in favor of the bill have claimed that abortion is not healthcare and that women may not have the final autonomy to decide what to do with their bodies.
Amnesty International designates access to safe abortion as a human right and a fundamental privilege of women. To argue that abortion is against God’s will does not hold water in light of verses in the Bible (Job 3: 10; Jeremiah 20:17) that states that it is better not to be born than to lead a life of misery.
Therefore, Governor Gordon, we urge you to do all in your power to prevent the anti-women bill from becoming law.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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