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Reproductive Freedom for All Launches Final Push of its 2024 Electoral Program With Voter Mobilization Weekend
Washington, DC — Today, Reproductive Freedom for All launched the final push of its 2024 electoral program with a voter mobilization weekend. The weekend GOTV efforts include 13 events in key states and a national text bank.
Our 2024 electoral program focuses on engaging members and voters — and especially Gen Z and voters of color— through digital and relational organizing, deep field investments, robust accountability and communications programs, on-the-ground support in key races and ballot initiatives, and more. We have boots on the ground in key states, including our chapter states of Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Georgia, and California, harnessing the full power of our more than 4 million members through phone banks and text banks, canvasses, and online mobilization. We’re expanding our focus this year to include voters who are often forgotten by traditional electoral programs, including voters on community and commuter college campuses.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“Our electoral program and organizing operation is working non-stop to reach folks where they’re at—whether that be online or on the ground. One of the most powerful ways we can mobilize voters is by speaking to the people we know in our own communities, and we’re giving our members and volunteers the tools to do exactly that. Voters have never been so fired up about abortion. They’re ready to make change happen, and we’re ramping up our GOTV operation to make sure it can. We have 31 days until Election Day—our reproductive freedom is at stake and we can’t afford to do anything less than leave it all on the field.”
Reproductive Freedom for All has been on the ground in states across the country throughout the 2024 election cycle as part of its largest-ever electoral program, working to ensure reproductive freedom champions are elected from statehouses to the White House and that we protect and expand abortion rights and access through ballot measures. Our 2024 program connects voters with opportunities to make immediate, tangible changes to help build a future where everyone is free to make their own decisions about their bodies, lives, and families.
Key components of the program include:
- Expanding our digital organizing program to connect voters with the tools and resources they need to mobilize their own communities. Our volunteer peer-to-peer texting program has already contacted over 2 million members and supporters in key states to confirm voter registrations, trained over 200 volunteers, and confirmed over 20,000 voter registrations in just four weeks.
- Ramping up our youth organizing program, including by expanding our student organizing operations to Nevada and Arizona and working with our National Youth Action Council, which is actively working with a group of 1,800 engaged volunteers. Our youth organizing program includes working on community and commuter college campuses.
- Working alongside our partners on the ground in Nevada and Arizona to pass ballot measures protecting abortion rights and access.
- Running a digital and phone campaign in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania through the Reproductive Freedom for All Fund, including launching an ad holding Donald Trump responsible for the abortion ban that led to the preventable death of Amber Nicole Thurman in Georgia. Phone calls will be made to a universe of 1.5M key voters in those states.
- Holding a series of “Restore Our Rights” member-organizing events calling voters on key electoral races across the country and giving them opportunities for direct action, as well as engaging voters through “Turn Out Tuesday,” which provides easy actions to take between now and Election Day.
- Expanding staff capacity in key battleground states and races for the final push of our GOTV efforts, holding events and contacting voters by phone, text, and canvassing.
More than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, abortion remains a top issue, mobilizing voters in red, blue, and purple states to protect reproductive freedom through ballot measures and by electing candidates who will safeguard their rights. In every election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, voters sent the same powerful message: They want their rights back, and they will vote for candidates who will protect and expand access to abortion care. Eight in 10 Americans say the decision to have an abortion should be made by the person who is pregnant, and recent polling shows that a record-high number of voters support abortion rights and say they will vote for candidates who do, too.
Republicans’ abortion bans continue to endanger lives and families in more than 20 states—even as horrific stories detailing the dangerous ramifications continue to come to light. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are preparing to ban all abortion nationwide if elected and attacking other reproductive freedoms— including contraception and assisted fertility treatments like IVF. With reproductive freedom on the line, electing candidates from state houses to the White House who will protect and expand it and protect abortion rights through ballot measures is more important than ever.
Read about Reproductive Freedom for All’s endorsed candidates here.
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.