'I can't stay silent': Roe reversal powers new generation to sign up and vote

[Demovictory9]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/roe-v-wade-abortion-us-politics-november-midterms

‘I can’t stay silent’: Roe reversal powers new generation to sign up and vote
Huge bloc of women expected to turn out in November midterms to protect abortion rights – could it alter the election outcome?


Sonya Koenig is scared. A 19-year-old student from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Koenig often stays up until 2am thinking. Sometimes she paces up and down the hall, or speaks to her roommate about nightmare scenarios in which she ends up pregnant and in need of an abortion.

“Being in college, I hear stories all the time of women getting drugged at parties, or just walking down the street, and something unfortunate can happen,” says Koenig, a freshman at Michigan State University. “A guy can walk away, but [these abortion bans] mean the woman has to choose: ‘Do I want to give this baby up … or raise this child with no help from anybody?’ That’s a really hard decision.”

In August, a week after her 19th birthday, Koenig signed up to vote. She is one of many women registering in droves since the supreme court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion on 24 June.

“My brain is constantly on fire. I can’t relax. I just want this election to be over with,” says Koenig, who plans to vote to protect abortion rights in a Michigan ballot as well as voting Democrat come November.

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“In my 28 years of analyzing elections, I had never seen anything like what’s happened in the past two months in American politics,” Tom Bonier, chief executive of Target Smart, wrote in the New York Times. “Women are registering to vote in numbers I never witnessed before. I’ve run out of superlatives to describe how different this moment is.”

[True Blue American]

1. Good news!

Republicans have passed the Rubicon!

After reading this Jonestown speech comment it is clear someone has to stop Trump, too! He has become a raving lunatic as the walls close in on his monster gang. There is no other name for him.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ohio-speech/

[Kath2]

2. We will Roe the vote.

Protect women’s rights.

Pro-choice always.

[magicarpet]

4. The genie has been let out of the magic lantern,... and much to their chagrin there is no way,..

... to return him back inside.

Once again the New Christian Fascist Republican Party has way over played the hand they were dealt. They fucked themselves royally - the ballot box will not be kind to them.

Some people say, stuffed and broiled crow is just absolutely delectable,.. if you dip it in a nice pungent horseradish and diced chives sauce first.

[magicarpet]

5. Oops, double post,.. sorry....

[Botany]

6. The dog has finally caught the car.

I was talking to a young lady who was signing up new voters and in two weekends at a local
farmer's market she has gotten 500. When I helped with that stuff getting 5 or 10 in a day
was really good.

[Martin68]

7. That's what I like to hear!