More than 50% of the U.S. population are adult females who, through voting, have the power to create a country where we thrive, have control over our bodies, receive the reproductive health care we choose and determine our own futures. A country where we decide whether or not to bear children, with laws that protect the privacy between us and our doctors.

Members of the Republican Party have embraced the far-right Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Their goal is to ban abortions nationwide and imprison doctors who provide services for women with unwanted pregnancies, even when necessary to save the mother’s life. They plan to ban safe drugs that terminate early unwanted pregnancies and even go so far as to ban contraceptives.

Safe and accessible abortions save lives, especially those of minorities and low-income women. Those working to limit our rights to these services need to be defeated at the ballot box.

Denise Penttila
Kennebunk