Read an Op-Ed on White Women Voters, Election Day 2024 [Video]

Me and my protest sign from the 2017 Women’s March – in which I urged white women to get active in all forms of civic engagement, especially as voters. Today, I’m making the same ask. (Credit: Candice Helfand-Rogers)

Ahead of Election Day, I’d like to share two stories.

The first is a heartbreaking tale amplified this week by Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. It centers on a married couple, Ondrea and Ceasar. “More than anything, I’ve always wanted to be a mother,” Ondrea says in the campaign’s video. When she got pregnant, the couple was elated – until she was 16 weeks along, and her water broke far too early. She then got the news no expecting mother ever wants to hear: Her child had no chance of survival.

Ondrea lives in Texas, which has especially stringent abortion restrictions following the 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade– a landmark decision by a U.S. Supreme Court turned ultra-conservative as …

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