The Blue State Flail

Abortion has shaped the lives of every person I know in Seattle. If not availing ourselves of abortion care, then simply knowing it was there to likely color the choices we make. On Tuesday, the national uproar over the leaked Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade reached us all—op-eds and Instagram stories of RBG quotes and birthday fundraisers and we-told-you-sos. We debated whether it represented a reason to vote or a reason voting doesn’t matter. “It’s Time to Rage,” proclaimed Roxane Gay in the New York Times. But from Seattle, sitting in a seat of white and middle-class privilege, a whisper: Where?

Vote? We’ve already elected two pro-choice U.S. senators and

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