Check out the bold new look for the 2022 Pro-choice Signature Ad. The ad was published on Jan 26 in the Indy weekly. You have 7 days to grab a copy at some coffee shops, grocery stores and restaurants if you are in the Triangle area. At this time when the US Supreme Court makeup puts the guaranteed right to abortion via Roe v. Wade at such great risk, we have a champion in US. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar. Our 2022 Pro-Choice signature ad features 2 quotes from Prelogar who captures the situation with this biased Supreme Court perfectly.
These statements were made in the oral arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case on Dec 1, 2021. Prelogar was one of only three lawyers chosen to make these arguments – a male lawyer representing the state of Mississippi (anti-abortion); Julie Rikelman, of the Center for Reproductive Rights, representing the state’s only abortion clinic; and the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, Elizabeth Prelogar. Read more about all 3 lawyers in the LA Times.
NC NOW has been running pro-choices signature ads for decades (!), originally in the News and Observer, and then in the Independent, which is now the Indy Weekly.
Most Americans support a women’s right to make her own decisions. According to Pew Research Center, about six in ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. They break this down further many ways, but how about this. “In the latest survey, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are 45 percentage points more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases (80% vs. 35%).” That is a significant amount of support from Republicans considering the anti-abortion bills their elected representatives keep filing.
NC now members will deliver copies of the pro-choice ad to all of our representatives in the NC Legislature this spring with a letter on priorities from NC NOW. If you want to help put the packets together or deliver, email Gailya Paliga or fill in the volunteer form on the NC NOW website. If you are on our email list, you will hear about plans when we are closer. You can also get on the mailchimp list by filling in this form.
Resources:
“Who are the lawyers set to argue the abortion case before the Supreme Court?,” 12/1/21, LA Times, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-12-01/lawyers-arguing-supreme-court-mississippi-abortion-case
“About six-in-ten Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, 5/6/21, Pew Research center, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/06/about-six-in-ten-americans-say-abortion-should-be-legal-in-all-or-most-cases/
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