The Dobbs Decision and Relational Organizing

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Missy McGinnis is an organizer with a grassroots organization dedicated to mobilizing suburban women. She says the Dobbs decision has energized them, but abortion is just one of many issues they're concerned about. "The cruelty needs to go, absolutely needs to go," she says.

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