Amy Littlefield: Overturning Roe v. Wade got people to the polls. Democrats must learn from that.
have a ballot initiative process that allows citizens, rather than state legislatures, to put a measure on the ballot. Conservative efforts to alter the citizen initiative process have been on the rise since 2016 in response to progressive wins, with 109 bills introduced this year alone,In Michigan, the immediate threat posed by the state’s enjoined 1931 abortion ban may have helped turn out voters not just for the reproductive freedom initiative, but for Democratic candidates. Gov.
One energized pocket of that campaign was in the state’s Upper Peninsula, where Susan Anderson and other women from Sault Ste. Marie helped gather nearly 754,000 statewide signatures to get the reproductive freedom amendment on the ballot. Ms. Anderson, who works in accounting and has voted for Republican candidates in the past, said she had never been engaged in a political campaign until the Michigan amendment. “It’s changed my life,” Anderson said. “I want to get involved in other stuff now.
Sara Maurer said she stuck with the campaign even after her pastor objected to her participation, declaring her out of fellowship with her beloved church. These women’s stories reflect the transformation of a growing pro-choice majority into a mobilized political force. But it will likely take this movement, with its new and at times uneasy alliances, more than several months to reach its full potential at the ballot box.
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