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  "path": "/2026/03/23/rachana-desai-martin-save-act-abortion-voting-rights-reproductive-rights/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-23T21:02:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Justice & Law",
    "National",
    "Politics",
    "Abortion Access",
    "Activism",
    "Congress",
    "Florida",
    "Healthcare",
    "Redefining Power: Indian American Feminism (Series)",
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    "Voting Rights",
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    "The SAVE Act Is Designed to Erode Access to the Ballot. The Woman Who Built the Largest Voter Protection Operation in History Is Not Surprised.",
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  "textContent": "The Senate has begun debating the SAVE America Act—a bill that would require Americans to show a birth certificate or passport just to register to vote.\n\nRachana Desai Martin is not surprised. She has spent her entire career watching exactly this happen.\n\nDesai Martin is one of the only people in the country who has spent her career building the infrastructure to protect both voting rights and reproductive rights. She has seen both fights from the inside. And what she sees—clearly, consistently, without drama—is that these are not two separate battles.\n\n\"At base, both of these things are really about power and control,\" she told me. \"When we're advocating for reproductive rights, it's to give people power over their own bodies and their lives and their families and their futures. When we're talking about voting rights, it's to give people the power to pick their representatives and have their government work for them.\"\n\nSame target. Same architecture. Same playbook.\n\nThe post The SAVE Act Is Designed to Erode Access to the Ballot. The Woman Who Built the Largest Voter Protection Operation in History Is Not Surprised. appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
  "title": "The SAVE Act Is Designed to Erode Access to the Ballot. The Woman Who Built the Largest Voter Protection Operation in History Is Not Surprised."
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