The Alito 5 Supreme’s throwdown moving abortion enforcement to the states is NOT popular witha majority of Americans, including Republicans…
Some feel it’s a factor in the dismal Republican midterm elections results…
Sooooo?
They’ve decided to go ‘silent’ on the subject…..
Republicans seeking the party’s 2024 presidential nomination have so far ignored an issue that has been central to the conservative movement for decades: abortion.
On Wednesday, Nikki Haley made no mention of abortion policy in her presidential campaign launch speech in South Carolina. Former President Donald Trump, the front-runner in most polls, has also avoided the issue in his high-profile remarks as a candidate — his lengthy Nov. 16 speech launching his 2024 bid, his two Jan. 28 addresses in New Hampshire and South Carolina and his response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.
Not only that, but Trump also never mentioned the Supreme Court or the judiciary in those speeches, an omission magnified by the fact that his role in reshaping the courts was arguably his biggest achievement in office. With the help of a Republican-led Senate, Trump appointed 234 judges, including three conservative Supreme Court justices instrumental to overturning Roe v. Wade.
Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who rose to power in South Carolina as a tea party-aligned conservative, signed abortion restrictions into law during her tenure as governor from 2011 to 2017 — a fact Democrats highlighted in response to her campaign launch.
The omission of abortion in key campaign speeches underlines a split within the Republican Party and the conservative movement about how to operate in a post-Roe world, now that proponents of abortion are more fired up. Some in the party prefer to downplay the issue, while others say GOP leaders must lean in and fight to restrict abortion….
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Last month, Trump himself sought to place blame for midterm shortcomings on anti-abortion advocates who had pushed for tight restrictions with no exceptions for rape or incest or the life of the pregnant woman.
“It was the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site.
That assertion was met with fierce pushback from advocates like SBA, which said in a statement at the time that candidates must “state clearly the ambitious consensus pro-life position and contrast that with the extreme view of Democrat opponents.”
It’s unclear how other prospective candidates will handle the issue in their campaigns, including whether to center it in their pitches to voters. Haley’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment….