“We cannot wait until rights are lost. We need to begin now to fight for their preservation.”
, for the first time in over 100 years, Republicans control the governor’s seat and both houses of the legislature in 21 states, and these legislative bodies are overwhelmingly opposed to abortion and indebted to the anti-choice lobby. State legislative gerrymandering and voter suppression in these states will make it very difficult to overturn this trifecta of power in many locales.
I also learned that public resistance makes a difference. Between 1988 and 1992, pro-choice Americans attended large-scale demonstrations in Washington and at state legislatures, joined political campaigns to elect a pro-choice president and Congress, and made their voices heard in the public arena. This public resistance helped increase public support forAs we recently saw, public resistance did not derail the appointment of Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
The strategy is simple: At the federal level, we need to win back the presidency and the U.S. Senate. Some of the 23 Democrats running for president or prominent Democrats sitting on the sidelines should run for the Senate so that we can relegate Mitch McConnell to minority leader.
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