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It truly is unbelievable how the pundits have overlooked that this is ROEVEMBER!? I live in a very blue state and I know that this is the top issue for everyone I know. The humanity of it all! How could literal life or death and freedom not be front and center for everyone in their lives?

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Right? It's mind-boggling. It's like they haven't yet internalized that we went from a theoretical harm (the possible overturning of Roe) to literal harm (the impact of abortion bans). I guess it's because they don't have a uterus and still think that gas prices are more important than my ability to decide what medical procedures I need.

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Looking forward to the Every State Blue Election Night Watch Party with Jess, Robert, and you. Wish MO was one of those key battleground states, but maybe, just maybe, we will have some surprises, in addition to passing Amendment 3, and hopefully unseating two judges from the MO Supreme Court. Thank you for all you are doing!

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YES! so glad you will be joining us! Thanks for all you are doing too – and looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Go team!

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ProPublica has published detailed stories of four women who died because of the abortion bans. I posted a note earlier with links to all of them. You can't read the headlines on the articles without sobbing. The articles are worse.

We older women are horrified ... And we're stepping up. Many of us didn't protest the Vietnam war. Many of us may never have been publicly Pro Choice.

But now, we've had enough. Watching women die is the horror we cannot tolerate.

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Yes, Sharon! Yes.

When Ohio's GOP nominee for Senate suggested that women past child-bearing age shouldn't care about abortion, I was slack-jawed for this very reason. We get it. We know. We've had kids, had friends with kids, seen things go horribly wrong, seen tragedy. We get it in a way that he clearly does not.

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If we prevail, we'll have the women of our nation to thank for saving us from ourselves. I find it mind-boggling how anyone can even consider such an amoral, lawless, bombastic narcissist as their choice for president. He is the antithesis of what I thought were American values. I offer two messages for anyone who's still undecided:

You have the absolute right to be Pro-Life or Pro-Choice. You have absolutely no right to force your views on others.

Our values are more important than any policies. We should take care, not advantage of each other.

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I find it mind-boggling, too. Hopefully we are all turning the page. It feels that way, doesn't it? Let's hope, and do the work we need to do to make it so. 💙

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And its not just abortion. Women like democracy too. We like being safe from gun violence. We like healthcare for all and social security and Medicare. And WE CAN SEE Republicans lying. Every day, all day….lying when we pay them to govern.

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All day, every day – you're totally right. Democracy is on the ballot in so many ways. Let's go win this thing!

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Amen. Something a lot of folks don’t know is that the #1 cause of death for pregnant women in the US is….homicide! Unbelievable!

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We live in the same state and maybe, just maybe, this is the year we take back the legislature. If that happens, it will be entirely due to the issue of abortion (finally on the ballot) bringing out the women and youth vote. There is a line in the sand that no political party should ever cross. The gopers not only crossed that line, they trampled it into the mud. For a party that screams about how "pro-life" it is, I'd like to see their plan for killing fewer babies. Only five states have a higher infant mortality rate than Missouri. If you are truly "pro-life," that statistic should terrify you. Obviously, it does not.

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You are so on point – this is absolutely the case. There are many ways we can reduce abortions – banning the procedure isn't one of them. Thank you for all you do!

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I do not have uterus, yet it is still very clear to my male mind. Go Kamala. Loved SNL last night.

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Yes! Thank you – this is a human rights issue, not a women's issue. SNL is great!

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They’ll never get it Michele. On a different subject, I hear there is a NC poll that has Harris ahead by 3-4 points. If true, it could be an early night. If that happened, I can’t wait to hear the pundits splutter with outrage at the pollsters.

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I think it's very possible that Ann Selzer's poll has given them permission to be honest about the results they're seeing. They weren't brave enough to be the first.

They had to wait for a woman to show them the way.

It tracks.

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Well said and true!

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Love the quote at the end…

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Great piece. How do pollsters define “independent women”?

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Thank you! Great question. Typically "independent" voters don't identify with either party. I presume that's the case here, but didn't dig into the crosstabs for her definition.

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Thank you! Of course that’s what means. The way this election season has been going, tho, my mind was like “Is that code for single? Is it referring to women who self-describe as ‘independent’?” I am officially losing my mind. 🤣🤣🤣

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Not a bad question at all! All of our brains are understandably scattered right now. Solidarity!

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You are sooooo right! It’s appalling how little play the tsunami of women registering and voting in this election will influence the outcome in favor of Harris/Walz. For Christ sakes, just look at the 2022 midterms where abortion bans were overturned by duh, massive numbers of motivated women and to be fair, some men too. The polls missed this entirely.

The ignorance of this issue is frankly insulting. Do think for a minute guys would be overlooked in this way if we criminalize the failure to pull out or wear a condom on the ballot? Can you imagine the uproar and vitriol associated with such a move, even though, this is where and when unwanted pregnancies begin!

There are some very wonderful things happening in this election and one that I hope is taken to heart and celebrated by the adult women powering this vote for the first woman president, is

We Hear You, You Matter, You Are in our Heart.

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I’ll believe enough women and men give a damn when Texas and Florida turn blue. Until then, women will continue to die.

Vote republicans out or nothing will change.

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There's a blind spot the size of ... I dunno, Kansas? ... in the way so many of us (and yes, when I say us, I probably mean men) are looking at this issue.

I don't want to dislocate my shoulder patting myself on the back--I have utterly failed to grasp how a woman might see things differently than I do many times in the past, and probably will sometime again. But I feel like I try, and I recognize that I might not be seeing the whole picture, while the "pundits" (a class that may rank up there with the Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers and should pobably go on the "B" ark, if you're a Hitchhiker's Guide fan)--who are supposed to be thinking about this stuff professionally--seem to thoroughly ignore the underlying issues in the gender gap.

If they put the time into trying to understand women's perspectives they continue to put into trying to empathize with the Trump voter in a diner (that one's easy; they're probably a closet fascist but just don't know it), there wouldn't be a "shock."

Hopefully tomorrow the shock is complete. Women, please save us from ourselves.

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