It’s hard to know what to do. But there are some immediate actions we can take.
Dan Pfeiffer has some thoughts about immediate next steps in this battle:
Decisions in the governor and state legislative races in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and elsewhere will be key in determining the rights and freedoms of women in those states. There are many ways to make an impact in those campaigns. Here are a few:
Contribute to NARAL or Planned Parenthood, the Democratic Governors Association and/or the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee;
Sign up for Vote Save America’s Midterm Madness Program;
Sign up to volunteer or contribute to the candidates and state parties in those and other states;
If you want to help individual women, here is a list of abortion funds to which you can contribute.
None of this is easy. I know it is far from satisfying. The fact that we have a Supreme Court majority installed by two Presidents who received fewer votes than their opponents is a symptom of a democracy that was broken long before Donald Trump waddled onto the scene. The effort to overturn Roe is part of an extreme agenda that includes banning books and attacking LGBTQ+ kids.
There was a dumb circular debate among Democrats about whether to engage in the “culture war” attacks from Republicans. That debate ended with the leak of this opinion.
We have no choice but to fight back. We have the moral and political high ground. It won’t be an easy fight, but it will be a righteous one.
This is just the beginning. The institution of an anti-democratic, theocratic, authoritarian government is well on its way to being enacted. We have no choice but to fight back.