In all my years as a mother, I never dreamed that my daughter could ever live in a world that offers her fewer civil rights than I had when I was her age.

I’ve fought to defend reproductive rights for decades, but since Donald Trump took office, we’ve been living in a political climate that I hardly could have imagined. Trump and the GOP have zeroed in on women’s reproductive freedom as one of their primary targets, and as they rush to confirm anti-choice judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the threat of losing the hard-won rights that landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade has offered women for 45 years could easily become a reality.

We know that Trump’s policies match his rhetoric, and this is one area in which he’s unquestionably delivered for his extremist base.

Trump and his administration have relentlessly attacked choice and contraception. And it’s not just far-right ideologues in Congress that are rubber-stamping Trump’s agenda: he’s packing the federal courts at all levels with ultra-conservative zealots who he can trust will do the same.

When Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed last year, he replaced the late conservative justice Antonin Scalia and helped Trump restore the previous ideological makeup of the court. But now Trump has nominated Kavanaugh to a former swing seat, which means that, if confirmed, he would be the fifth conservative vote and the court could alter women’s reproductive rights for generations to come.

We knew even before Trump made his most recent nomination that his pick would oppose abortion— the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, helped shape his list of potential candidates.

Brett Kavanaugh at the White House on the night President Trump announced his nomination to the Supreme Court. SAUL LOEB Getty Images

Kavanaugh might say that he respects the precedents handed down by the Supreme Court over the years. But we know those are empty promises—his record tells us outright how hostile he is to Roe. In 1987, he praised Rehnquist’s dissent in Roe, and just last year, Kavanaugh tried to block a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant, from obtaining an immediate abortion in the well-known Garza v. Hargan case. It’s at our own peril to hope he would rule in a different direction going forward.

All three branches of our federal government (and a growing number of states) are already actively working to undermine abortion rights. Since 2011, politicians across the country have passed more than 400 restrictions that not only limit access but shame, punish, and criminalize women who have abortions.

Kathleen Turner at a Planned Parenthood rally in 2004. Ramin Talaie Getty Images

Senate Republicans have shown us time and again that they’ll do anything to confirm Trump’s judicial nominees, no matter how unfit they are, as a cynical move to advance their own agendas. And true to form, they’re now trying to shortcut the court’s vetting process and rushing to confirm Kavanaugh.

If Kavanaugh is confirmed and Roe is overturned, it would be up to state legislatures to do as they please with women’s basic rights, leaving millions of American women—primarily low-income women—without critical and often life-saving reproductive options.

The day after Trump was inaugurated, millions of women around the world marched to protest his misogyny and the policies he might enact as president. But it’s Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination that’s the single biggest threat to Roe to date. We must continue to mobilize to make sure the rights our foremothers worked tirelessly to secure for us remain intact for all women.

Without control of our bodies, we cannot control our lives. Raise hell, and most important, call your senators and tell them to vote no on Brett Kavanaugh.

Our health, safety, well-being and rights depend on it.

Kathleen Turner is an advocate and Academy Award-nominated actor and serves on the board of People For the American Way’s affiliated PFAW Foundation.

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