Complacency and poor strategy helped bring us the end of Roe.
the majority of white voters in Mississippi are Republicans, and that African Americans are dependably pro-choice. One could argue that for pro-life Republicans in Mississippi, disenfranchising Black people is a political necessity. In 2011, Ross correctly predicted that “in the future, our movements will face an even more Republicanized state legislature, guaranteeing that women's and civil rights will be violated.
Indeed, after the introduction of voter ID, the Mississippi House of Representatives became Republican-dominated for. The Mississippi House of Representatives shifted from being heavily Democratic to heavily Republican. Democrats went from having a 66-seat advantage, following the 1991 elections, to a 29-seat disadvantage, after the 2019 elections.
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective’s Simpson spoke about this voter ID campaign: “Taking us back to Mississippi in 2012, there was a voter ID bill before the state legislature, as well as a personhood bill. [It was] women of color, reproductive justice organizations, groups on the ground in Mississippi saying if [we] don't address these issues at the same time, we're going to set ourselves up for disaster….
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