Abortion is actually going to save democracy, because, if we can go state by state, and we can actually transform the way in which people understand not just what it means to fight for abortion access, but what it means to actually transform how we vote in each state and vote locally to ensure that protection.
Alexis McGill Johnson argues that the fight for abortion rights is crucial for the preservation of democracy.
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What they have provided us is essentially a roadmap to let us know that they have been willing to overturn 49 years of precedent to take away a constitutional right, never lost a constitutional right.
What is at stake is the fact that abortion rights, we know, are going to play a defining role in the `22 midterms. Because people are experiencing the reality of what these bans have meant to them currently, and what they have always been…
the amount of violence that is associated, this shift, this belated shift by the religious right to make abortion their main issue, it has come with violence and at great cost, including the cost of people’s lives.