Opinion: Abortion should get you to the polls (and if I was a man, maybe you’d listen)
Abortion-rights demonstrators shout slogans after tying green flags to the fence of the White House during a protest July 9, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. (Jose Luis Magana/AP file)
Sarah Hunter Simanson
Sarah Hunter Simanson is a Memphis-based freelance writer who received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is working on her first novel. Her writing has appeared in The LA Times, HuffPost, Salon, Travel + Leisure, The Daily Memphian, and elsewhere.
“Girls and women in Tennessee need their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons to step up and vote to end the government’s regulation of women’s bodies.”
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