Will Abortion Be Enough to Save Democrats in November?

With Republicans strong on the economy, it’s not clear how much any other issue will matter.

By Susan B. Glasser
October 6, 2022

This weekend, when I ran into the former Democratic National Committee
chairwoman Donna Brazile, she told me that she was not super optimistic about
the midterm elections—a message she had shared in a recent meeting with top
White House aides about how to mobilize the Party’s voters. “Democrats have to
defy history,” she later told me. “It’s tough. That’s my worry.” There was,
however, one issue that gave Brazile some hope: the backlash to the Supreme Court’s
decision this summer to throw out Roe v. Wade, the abortion-rights decision
from 1973. It has resulted in a brewing voter rebellion neatly summed up in a
T-shirt that Brazile recently saw, which read “Roe, Roe, Roe to Vote.” She has
taken to singing the slogan like a refrain.

Continued: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/will-abortion-be-enough-to-save-democrats-in-november


USA – We want our leaders to speak with moral clarity on abortio

We want our leaders to speak with moral clarity on abortion

By Jon O’Brien, opinion contributor
Feb 5, 2019

When President Trump was elected, many women realized that something that seemed a far prospect could become reality — that Roe V. Wade could be overturned. In the face of this threat, we have also seen something inspiring. State legislators across the country — from Oregon to Illinois to New York — have passed a wave of progressive laws to protect access to abortion and safeguard a woman’s autonomy to make her own moral choices over deeply consequential, deeply complex decisions around when and whether to continue a pregnancy.

Continued: https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/428397-we-want-our-leaders-to-speak-with-moral-clarity-on-abortion