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Women are registering to vote in Pa. in numbers far exceeding men since the Supreme Court abortion d
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-women-voter-registration-dobbs-20220822.htmlThe voter registration envelope had been sitting in Kiera Coyle’s bedroom for months when her cell phone started blowing up that Friday in June.
Had she seen the news about the Supreme Court?
Coyle, an 18-year-old from Willow Grove, had been interested in voting but just hadn’t gotten around to it, busy preparing to leave for college, babysitting for a local family, and making trips to the Jersey Shore.
After hearing abortion could become illegal in some states, she dug the form out, registered as a Democrat, and sent it in.
“Not just me, but all my friends, we immediately registered to vote,” Coyle said. “If we have the voice to vote, we wanted it. … We were really enraged. We were like, ‘How are we going backward?’ ”
Thousands of women across Pennsylvania and the country have registered to vote since the June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned the federal right to an abortion in the United States.