This matches what I see/feel around the mid-terms this year (gift link, will get you through the paywall for a while).

Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It

…once the actual Dobbs decision came down, everything changed. For many Americans, confronting the loss of abortion rights was different from anticipating it. In my 28 years analyzing elections, I’ve never seen anything like what’s happened in the past two months in American politics: Women are registering to vote in numbers I’ve never witnessed. I’ve run out of superlatives to describe how different this moment is, especially in light of the cycles of tragedy and eventual resignation of recent years. This is a moment to throw old political assumptions out the window and to consider that Democrats could buck historic trends this cycle….

 
And we should be fired up. You know when the Court murdered Roe v. Wade, so many people said it will all go to the states now? Maybe the people will decide whether they want their state to keep reproductive rights legal? Look at Michigan, where citizens recently passed a measure to maintain abortion rights, and the legislature simply refused to allow it to proceed.

Michigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative

A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot….

Michigan’s 1931 law — which abortion opponents had hoped would be triggered by a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade in June — remains blocked after months of court battles. A state judge ruled Aug. 19 that Republican county prosecutors couldn’t enforce the ban, saying it was “in the public’s best interest to let the people of the great state of Michigan decide this matter at the ballot box.”…

 
Trigger laws have gone into effect in three more states. This is why we have to focus more clearly on elections for state legislators as well as on national offices.

In conclusion, let’s listen to Jemele Hill. And then vote, and get everyone you know to vote as well.

I’m convinced an underlying reason for the anti-abortion push is because *some* men are panicked because *some* women realize being married + having children isn’t as fulfilling as the brochure makes it seem. Women are choosing themselves and some of y’all hate it. https://t.co/KwMGi3ySrx

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 4, 2022