BRIEFING ROOM

Mother’s Day is about more than flowers, cards, and brunches. It is about honoring the strength, sacrifice, and resilience of women who have made a difference in our lives. From classrooms to protest lines, from the halls of Congress to courtrooms, women are silently and boldly making an impact on our communities and families every day. 

For generations, women have fought for a voice, equal opportunities, and the freedom to make decisions about their own lives and bodies. Those battles shaped the world our daughters and granddaughters live in today, but they don’t necessarily guarantee their future. Across this country, many hard-won rights are under attack by extremists and are slipping away. 

Access to quality health care is essential for every woman, whether she is a mother, hopes to become one, or chooses a different path. Limiting access does not build stronger families or healthier communities. It creates fear, uncertainty, and dangerous barriers for women across America.

Each day, the door closes a bit more on our ability to seek out health care that is right for us. Reproductive health care, including contraception, cancer screenings, prenatal care, fertility treatment, and safe abortion care, is fundamental to women’s health, independence, and economic security. Without these services, everyone suffers: children, spouses, and communities.

Mothers understand what is at stake. They want their children to grow up in a country where women are respected, protected, and free to make their own choices. They want their daughters to inherit more rights, not fewer. They want a future in which women do not have to fight the same battles their mothers and grandmothers already fought.

This Mother’s Day, we honor not only the mothers raising the next generation but also the women who continue to speak out, organize, vote, and fight for equality and justice. Progress has never come easily. Every right women have today exists because someone was willing to stand up and demand change.

At JAC, we are working to help elect candidates to Congress who will champion policies that support women and families: affordable health care, paid family leave, maternal health protections, and reproductive freedom.

Our mothers fought for us. Now it is our turn.