10/31/2024
I had 169 million reasons to vote for Kamala Harris yesterday— and so do you.
“At a Senate hearing shortly before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Yellen testified that access to reproductive health care, including abortion, over the previous five decades had enabled many women to finish school and advance in the workplace.”
No matter what they tell you, the destruction of women’s freedoms isn’t about preserving religious or traditional family values. There are more sinister goals at play, including financially weakening the communities that benefited from women advancing economically. It’s about making these communities desperate enough to be exploited for the cheapest wages and the poorest working conditions.
That era of increasing financial freedoms brought good things for women, of course, but also their families and communities. Today we are outnumbering men on college campuses and have better graduation rates. We are contributing more earnings than ever to our households. In fact, many families wouldn’t be above the poverty line if not for a woman’s paycheck.
The folks who collaborated to strike down Roe v Wade aren’t done yet. They won’t be satisfied until we go back to a time when women lacked the economic independence to leave abusive spouses, to thrive when widowed, divorced, abandoned, or simply single.
While the Democratic party has lost its way on some crucial issues (more about that later), it has never wavered on reproductive rights. I genuinely believe that a woman in the Oval Office would work to solidify these rights for every woman in every state.
by Tasha Williams
Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states. The vote results will have consequences beyond women's reproductive rights.
