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 designed to do, which is to harm health care, which is to harm patients, which is to challenge providers and people who have taken oaths to save lives and to protect people.
Alice Marie Johnson: “What is at stake is the fact that abortion rights, we know, are going to play a defining role in the `22 midterms.…”
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Alexis McGill Johnson emphasizes the critical importance of abortion rights in the upcoming midterm elections.
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