May 2015
Opposing 20-Week Ban

Under the leadership of Catholics for Choice and along with many other faith-based and religious groups, the UUWF signed on to letters to members of Congress (first the House and then the Senate) opposing a federal bill that would ban all termination procedures after 20 weeks, with the exception of maternal endangerment and rape if a woman has been counseled within 48 hours of her abortion. In the letter, we urged a no vote on this “extreme legislation [which] would block a woman’s access to safe healthcare and deny her the ability to make decisions according to her own beliefs and conscience.”