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This Week in the War on Women [1]
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Date: 2022-11-12
For months I’ve been hearing from male pundits and journalists that abortion wasn’t going to be an issue in this election. Despite an overwhelming victory in the Kansas referendum in August (where polls had said we’d lose), we heard over & over again that the issue would be forgotten because of the all-important gas prices. This week, voters chose to preserve abortion rights in Michigan, Vermont, California, and even in deep-red Kentucky.
Jezebel has a handy slideshow of anti-choice wingnuts who lost after saying outrageous things on the issue (like Oz wanting decisions to be between “a woman, her doctor, and local politicians” — yes, he really said this!)
Moira Donegan noted that it was treated as conventional wisdom that there would be a red “bloodbath,” and pundits (including some Democrats) were pre-blaming feminists for making candidates focus on abortion. But, “There was no bloodbath; there was barely a paper cut.” Feminists, who brought women to the polls over abortion, played a huge role in saving Democrats’ chances.
It seems almost insultingly remedial to have to explain why this framing – the notion that somehow the midterms could either be about the economy or they could be about abortion – is so wrongheaded. Because, of course, abortion access is central to the economic prospects of working people. But to acknowledge this, you have to acknowledge something that still seems incomprehensible and out of reach for many of our most esteemed shapers of political opinion: that when we think and speak of economic and political subjects, we are speaking of women.
As always, this diary is a group effort. Thanks to mettle fatigue, officebss, SandraLLAP, elenacarlena, and the WOW crew for links & discussion.
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