Want to know how we save democracy? Look about you to Michigan
The Roe backlash is real and should inspire everyone.
Before voters in Kansas sent a message to anyone who thinks we’re going back to 1973, I told you that the backlash to Roe had already begun, in Michigan.
And here’s more evidence from the Washington Post:
Women in Michigan led men in new voter registrations by about seven percentage points after the Supreme Court struck down Roe, one data firm’s analysis found. In many of their highest-profile races, Republican voters have nominated candidates who embrace strict abortion bans without exceptions for rape and incest.
And a ballot measure asking whether Michigan should protect abortion in its constitution is likely to go before voters this fall, after thousands of volunteers gathered more than 750,000 signatures in support. Democrats expect that question to supercharge an issue they have already been emphasizing in their campaigns and turn out voters who will also pull the lever for their party’s candidates.
Consider this a little reminder that it’s nice to see the gears of justice grind in the right direction. But given how excruciatingly slow they grind and how tilted our carceral system is in the favor of rich white men, the only ones who are going to save us in time for the 2024 election are us.
And telling these assholes to take their hands off our bodies is how we do it.