Four years ago, the US Supreme Court stripped away the constitutional right to access life-affirming and life-saving abortion care.
Since then, Pro-Choice Washington has helped make profound progress here in the state of Washington to safeguard rights and improve access to abortion for everyone who lives or travels here for care.
We now face a possible SCOTUS ruling that could ban mifepristone by mail, cutting off the primary lifeline for abortion access across much of the country. At times, the headwinds feel relentless.
And yet, our communities have met this moment with extraordinary resilience and resourcefulness. State-based activists in Idaho, where community members are facing one of the most draconian abortion bans in the nation, gathered 120,000 signatures through entirely grassroots, neighbor-to-neighbor organizing. This November, Idahoans are poised to restore abortion rights through a ballot measure.
Here in Washington, Pro-Choice Washington helped pass some of the most protective abortion laws in the country across the 2026 and 2025 legislative sessions.
Building on the foundation of the Shield Law and My Health My Data Act, our activists helped secure a first-in-the-nation public savings program for abortion care, passed regulations on license plate reader surveillance to protect patients and providers from tracking, and helped get our state’s mifepristone stockpile into providers’ hands.
But even in a state with some of the strongest protections in the nation, real gaps remain and finding care in your community can be a challenge. Low Medicaid reimbursement rates, constrained state revenue, abortion deserts, and clinics stretched thin all threaten to undermine the access we’ve fought to secure.
Meanwhile, our opponents continue to evolve their strategy. They’ve seen that abortion access is popular enough to give even Trump pause. So, they’ve pivoted their strategies, increasingly targeting the bodily autonomy of trans kids and girls. In response, our organization joined the No Hate in WA State campaign to help fight two harmful ballot measures that are aimed at trans youth and young girls.
Four years after Roe fell, Pro-Choice Washington remains committed to the fight. Defending what we’ve won, closing the gaps that remain, and standing with our neighbors across the region and the country who refuse to back down.
The last four years have proven that this movement – our movement – is powerful, nimble, and determined.
Pro-Choice Washington, founded in 1970, is Washington state’s oldest and most established reproductive rights advocacy organization. Through education, legislation, and electoral action, Pro-Choice Washington works to ensure that every person in Washington State has access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.
