To: Del Marsh, Senate President Pro Tempore, Jabo Waggoner, Senate Majority Leader, Arthur Orr, Chair of the Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee, and Trip Pittman, Chair of the Finance and Taxation Education Committee

Tell the Alabama Senate: Focus on budget priorities, not attacks on women's health.

We urge you to oppose the recent set of bills that would restrict a woman’s access to abortion. HB 489, HB 490, HB 493, HB 494, HB 31 are all attacks on women’s health.

Alabama is facing serious budget shortfalls and the legislature needs to work on improving our schools, giving teachers their promised raises, and paying for higher education.

Restrictions on abortion should not be prioritized, especially when similar legislation has cost other states hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend in court.

Alabamians need you to focus on the state’s financial situation, rather than interfering in a woman’s most personal, private medical decisions.

I strongly urge you to support Alabama women and not make difficult health situations more traumatic. Please reject these intrusive bills and focus on issues that affect all Alabamians.

I look forward to hearing from you on this important matter.

Why is this important?

A package of harmful bills attacking access to women’s health care just passed the Alabama House and is poised to be debated in the Senate.

These bills were designed to block access to abortion at any cost -- and it's clear that legislators haven’t gotten the message: People don’t want politicians to interfere in a woman’s personal, private decisions.

Meanwhile, Alabama is facing budget shortfalls and lack of funding for education. We need to politicians to focus on the issues that impact all Alabamians, and not these dangerous bills.

Act now to tell Alabama Senate leaders to reject these unnecessary and unacceptable bills.