Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker penned an open letter to men in GQ magazine on Friday, imploring them “to listen, to speak out, and to take action” in the wake of recent legislature around the country impeding women’s access to abortion.

“Women should not have to face this fight alone,” Booker wrote. “Men, it’s on us to listen, to speak out, and to take action. Not because women are our mothers, sisters, wives or friends—but because women are people. And all people deserve to control their own bodies.”

The New Jersey Democrat addressed the draconian Alabama abortion law passed this week that bans the procedure in almost every case. Booker said that men need to understand these “types of bills were designed to control, dehumanize, and criminalize.”

“This attack on women’s fundamental freedoms and agency is a blatant assault on constitutional and human rights,” he wrote, adding that Alabama’s bill isn’t “an anomaly” but rather part of “a decades-long, coordinated, all-out effort to erode women’s reproductive rights and freedom nationwide.”