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I find her evolution super relatable — I was raised a JW, and so until I left at 25, I was still repeating the party line. For the last few years, I was _also_ articulating that I thought it was completely ridiculous to treat being gay or having an abortion as anything more serious than having sex with someone you were not married to (or engaging in oral sex at all, for example, which was also against JW doctrine — or, for that matter, masturbating). Once I wasn’t a JW, it was a very, very easy switch for me to become fully pro-choice, as the next stage of my personal political evolution was in an anarcho-socialist direction (I’m mostly over that now. Mostly.).
Obviously, I want fair elections, and I don’t want anyone to have to work especially hard to vote — I want vote by mail, early voting, lots of polling locations, whatever works for the people served by those options. I hate gerrymandering, and I believe we benefit as a group when all people’s preferences are expressed fully. In the last few years, however, it has become abundantly clear to me that we are not going to have a democracy at all, unless we have a lot more protection for voters. I knew the Supreme Court should not have eroded or reversed earlier legislation, but we’ve sure had plenty of evidence in support of that position recently.
It is with great joy that I feel the connection articulated between a woman’s right to choose and voting rights. We have to have both. We cannot have one without the other.
I find her evolution super relatable — I was raised a JW, and so until I left at 25, I was still repeating the party line. For the last few years, I was _also_ articulating that I thought it was completely ridiculous to treat being gay or having an abortion as anything more serious than having sex with someone you were not married to (or engaging in oral sex at all, for example, which was also against JW doctrine — or, for that matter, masturbating). Once I wasn’t a JW, it was a very, very easy switch for me to become fully pro-choice, as the next stage of my personal political evolution was in an anarcho-socialist direction (I’m mostly over that now. Mostly.).
Obviously, I want fair elections, and I don’t want anyone to have to work especially hard to vote — I want vote by mail, early voting, lots of polling locations, whatever works for the people served by those options. I hate gerrymandering, and I believe we benefit as a group when all people’s preferences are expressed fully. In the last few years, however, it has become abundantly clear to me that we are not going to have a democracy at all, unless we have a lot more protection for voters. I knew the Supreme Court should not have eroded or reversed earlier legislation, but we’ve sure had plenty of evidence in support of that position recently.
It is with great joy that I feel the connection articulated between a woman’s right to choose and voting rights. We have to have both. We cannot have one without the other.