Today, the National Women’s Law Center released a report highlighting the discrimination health care professionals face for simply supporting or providing abortions. This translates into direct harm for patients who need abortions or care for pregnancy complications.

Their report, Diagnosing Discrimination: Barriers Facing Health Care Providers Who Support and Perform Abortion, seeks to highlight the discrimination providers face that is little known or addressed. The report aims to reduce stigma and stoke efforts to develop and implement solutions by educating health care providers, advocates, and policymakers about discrimination against health care professionals who support abortion.

They have also released a blog alongside the report titled,NWLC Report: Fired and Threatened – Simply for Providing or Supporting Abortion.

Take action and make certain to share with all of your networks that this is not acceptable and the women of Pennsylvania and across the country will not stand for it!

Sample tweets:

Doctors and nurses should never fear losing their jobs simply because they treated patients seeking abortion, or because they support abortion access. Learn morehttps://on.nwlc.org/2uWCgFS

Across the country, providers are fired, threatened, and punished for providing abortion services, seeking abortion training, or engaging in advocacy around abortion. This is unacceptable. https://on.nwlc.org/2uWCgFS

When clinicians are punished for providing or supporting abortion, patients who need care for miscarriage or abortion suffer too. https://on.nwlc.org/2uWCgFS