Sign On Now to Protect Women During the COVID-19 Crisis

From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/):

Should I pay for rent or food? If I had an unwanted pregnancy right now, what could I do? Can I afford to take a sick day from work? Should I risk getting sick to go out and vote?

This is where we’re at in the COVID-19 crisis. The richest country on the planet is forcing its families to make impossible, even deadly, decisions. Women are shouldering the brunt of it—especially women of color. We’re the majority of those working on the front lines to keep people alive and fed. We’re caring for our kids. We’re most likely to lose our jobs because of this crisis.

Sign on NOW to our list of demands for women at https://action.momsrising.org/sign/WeDemandMorePPP. Congress has provided only a small fraction of the relief urgently needed for the courageous women workers and caretakers on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Shocking new data has emerged that show Black and Latinx people are dying at rates markedly higher than white Americans.[1]

Our elected leaders must develop and implement health equity interventions across all components of coronavirus response legislation, collect national health outcomes data by race, and ensure that all new policies urgently address these racial and ethnic disparities. We need Congress to:

• Prioritize our health and safety ahead of corporations.
• Get life-sustaining relief to us NOW.
• Make state governments strong; they are our lifeline.
• Stop the attacks on our reproductive care, including abortion access.
• Protect our safety and our right to vote in 2020.

Congress cannot continue to let women and families struggle while giving bailouts to corporations. They’re letting anti-abortion politicians exploit this crisis to attack our rights. They’re standing by as voters risk their lives to cast their ballots. The next COVID-19 relief package MUST right these wrongs.

→ This is a moment when we must be speaking in unison in our loudest voice — and we need you, your friends, and your family to join us. We won’t stop fighting until our voices are heard. 

Make no mistake, it’s women who bear the burden of this crisis. It’s the bus driver working a 15-hour shift for the riders who rely on her; the young mother wondering how she’ll feed her daughter after being laid off; the nurse who shows up every day to save lives while risking her own.

While lawmakers are busy relieving corporations and big banks, who will take care of those that take care of us? We will.  

When more people like you take action, the louder our voices become.