Friend,

It's National Women's Health Week, but today Republican politicians in Washington and Augusta are still waging a war against women's reproductive rights.

As a woman, it's insulting and an invasion of my privacy when politicians don't trust me to make an informed personal decision about my health, my economic future, and when I start a family. And it's tiresome that we still have to defend rights won by my mother's and grandmother's generations.

It's about trust: I trust the Democratic Party, because Democrats trust women.

Right now in Augusta, Republicans are pushing two bills that would restrict women's access to safe and legal abortion--despite objections from medical experts. These bills are a coordinated effort to chip away at the rights of Maine women to make health care decisions privately, with their doctors.

When we don't have Democratic majorities in both the State House and Senate, women need to worry about the real possibility that these bills could become law.

Give $5, $10, $25 or more today, to ensure that after 2016 women have Democractic majorities they can trust to make sure these bills go nowhere.

On May 13 in Washington, House Republicans voted to ban abortion at 20 weeks nationwide.

Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin was one of them.

Abortion opponents are touting this ban as the "beginning of the end to abortion." After 20 weeks, they'll go for 12, and then 6. With a Republican Congress who they helped elect, they will erode abortion access altogether.

Let's give them one less vote they can count on.

Donate today and help us defeat Bruce Poliquin in 2016 and elect a Congressperson who trusts women and women can trust.

I hope you will stand with me, and women across our state, to ensure that our right to make these personal, private decisions will be left in trusted hands--our own.

Sincerely,

Anya Trundy
Finance Director, Maine Democratic Party