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Center for Reproductive Rights Releases New PSA Featuring
Tony and Grammy Award Winner Dee Dee Bridgewater
The Center for Reproductive Rights released a new PSA
featuring Tony
and multiple Grammy
Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater as part
of a new video series following the 41st anniversary
of Roe v. Wade,
the historic US Supreme Court decision that recognized a
woman's constitutional right to abortion.
Dee Dee Bridgewater, who is the host of NPR's JazzSet and
a world-renowned singer, is best known for her two-time
Grammy Award winning album, Dear
Ella,
dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald, and her Tony Award winning
role as Glinda
the Good Witch in Broadway's The
Wiz.
In the video,
Dee Dee shares a powerful story about her own terrifying
experience seeking an abortion as a teen prior to the Roe
v. Wade ruling.
By sharing her personal story, Dee Dee hopes that women will
be inspired to share their own experiences as a way to urge
more Americans to stand up for reproductive rights.
Said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the
Center for Reproductive Rights:
Dee Dee Bridgewater's harrowing
and courageous story is a prime example of just what is at
stake in this fight for our basic reproductive rights. This
fight isn't just about laws on the books. It's about
millions of women's lives.
?It is time for our elected officials to
really hear personal stories like Dee Dee's and support
legislation and policies, like the federal Women's Health
Protection Act, that safeguard a woman's right to decide
when and if to have children, no matter where she lives.?
The first PSA in this new series,
which was released on the Roe anniversary
on January 22, featured actor and
reproductive rights advocate Mark
Ruffalo, who
also shared a personal story about his family's pre-Roe experience
and called for politicians to move reproductive rights
forward, not backward. In the months to come, additional
PSAs will be released by the Center as part of its Draw
the Line campaign.
More than 130 Members of Congress including 34 Senators and
99 Representatives
have stepped forward to sponsor the Women's
Health Protection Act (S1691/HR
3471), a Congressional bill designed to end the recent wave
of anti-choice laws preventing women from accessing their
constitutional right to an abortion ensuring a woman's
constitutional rights do not depend on her zip code. The
Women's Health Protection Act would ensure abortion
providers are not singled out and in many cases shut down
for medically unwarranted restrictions that ultimately harm
women by preventing them from accessing safe and legal
abortion services.
To join the conversation online, supporters
should follow
@ReproRights and use the hashtags #DrawTheLine
and #ActForWomen.
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About the Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center
for Reproductive Rights is
a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure
reproductive rights are treated as fundamental human rights.
You can find the Center on Facebook at Facebook.com/ReproductiveRights and
on Twitter at Twitter.com/ReproRights.
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