For a LOT of GOPer’s…..
NOT A DAMN THING….
Americans on the whole?
Are NOT happy with the efforts to take it away…..
It hurt the Republican’s in the midterm’s and continues to in recent elections….
AND?
Republicans ARE tied to ongoing anti-abortion efforts being waged against the abortion pill’s now….
And most Republicans are ducking and going silent….
Fact….
OVER 60% of American’s want Abortion access available across the country….
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) hasn’t touched it. Neither has Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) or Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
It’s been four days since a federal judge in Texas invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone, and top Republicans have largely been silent on the issue.
Even former President Trump, who appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, hasn’t weighed in on what was potentially the most significant victory for the anti-abortion movement since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion last year.
The Texas decision, which the Justice Department has appealed, could have far-reaching implications for access to abortion nationwide, as well as the authority of the entire FDA. It could restrict access to one of the two FDA-approved abortion drugs in every state, even ones where abortion is legal.
But you wouldn’t know that from the muted GOP responses.
It highlights a political bind facing Republicans, who are reaping legal wins after years of pushing to restrict abortions, but paying the price among a general electorate that largely favors legal abortion access.
“The Republican party is playing with fire. They have put their right-wing politics ahead of the health and well-being of American women,” said former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards,who now co-chairs a Democratic super PAC.
According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted just before the ruling in Texas, 53 percent of respondents said medication abortion should be legal in their state…..
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“Many Republicans handled this issue very badly in the last election. They got beat up and they didn’t fight back,” Musgrave said….