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The East Palo Alto City Council approved a proclamation declaring the city a champion of reproductive freedom and health equity, affirming the city's dedication to ensuring that all people have the right to make decisions about their own bodies and to access necessary reproductive health services without interference.
While California has long been at the forefront of protecting reproductive rights, recognizing the importance of bodily autonomy and privacy in reproductive choices, including access to safe and legal abortions, states across the country still enact laws that restrict or prohibit abortion.
Communities across the country are facing significant threats to reproductive freedom, which disproportionately affect marginalized groups such as people of color, lower-income people, immigrant communities, and residents of rural areas, all of whom already face barriers to receiving adequate care.
In this regard, the City Council called on the United States Congress to pass legislation that guarantees reproductive freedom throughout the country, ensuring that the right to access abortion and other reproductive health services is protected for all.
The City Council proclamation recognized that access to reproductive care is critical to gender, economic, and racial equality, and has provided people with supports to make independent decisions about whether or not to have children and raise their families in safe and sustainable environments.
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