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 affiliation, according to a Guttmacher Institute study.
The Do No Harm Act will help ensure that our laws are a shield to protect religious freedom and not used as a sword to harm others by undermining civil rights laws and denying access to health care.
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