Beyond Choice: The 2024 Election and the Battle for Women’s Autonomy
Part One
The 2024 election is an election about women’s choices. President Trump’s first term in office did irreparable harm to women’s rights in America. By appointing the Supreme Court justices who would, ultimately, be responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and setting into motion a more amped-up version of the Right’s long-standing anti-diversity campaign, his first term will long be remembered for the long-term consequences of bad policy. But his next term, should he be given the opportunity to have one, will have even broader implications for women.
This is also about more than having a woman on the ballot. Though she would be the first woman president, as she is already the first woman vice president, this election is not simply about one woman’s career trajectory. This is about whether women should have the right to run in the first place, whether or not we should have the right to contribute to society outside the domestic sphere.
These next four years are about the place that women and girls occupy in society. It’s about whether or how we structure our lives around the family. And it’s about the big ideas of conservative, religious fanatics that are finally beginning to see mainstream success, largely due to actors like Trump who are willing to throw in…
