“Our decision returns the issue of abortion to [state] legislative bodies, and it allows women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process by influencing public opinion, lobbying legislators, voting and running for office. Women are not without electoral or political power.”
—Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Women voters have proven Alito right: Since he wrote the Dobbs decision two years ago, overturning Roe v. Wade, women in seven states—including in red Kentucky, Kansas and Ohio—have showed up to the polls and demonstrated their electoral power by voting to protect abortion rights whenever the issue has appeared on the ballot.
But the battle is far from over, and the next three months are make or break time. It’s essential that each of us act with urgency and determination. Act like our lives and the lives of our friends, kids, lovers—anyone we care about—depend on it.
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