MIAMI — Lily Kalandjian, a 19-year-old University of Florida junior, was checking her social media Monday night when she got a notification about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting the court will strike down Roe v. Wade.
Even though the spring semester is over, her organization, the University of Florida College Democrats, didn’t sit back. By Tuesday, the group was finishing a social media graphic listing abortion resources and where people can register to vote, she said. Some of the group’s leaders coordinated a rally with Planned Parenthood.
Kalandjian, a young, liberal college student, is exactly the type of voter Democrats are hoping will be energized to cast a ballot in November as a consequence of the looming abortion ruling and potential changes to abortion access. She said she’s hopeful that many of her peers, normally uninterested or too busy for politics in non-presidential years, may now see why voting always matters.
