With Abortion ‘Rights’ referendums PASSING in states across the country by wide margins?
Republican lawmakers have turned their back’s against those pushing for a National Ban against the procedure…..
It is a loser for their party , who thought the High Court throwing the policy to the states would benefit them….
It hasn’t…
And Democrats plan to keep reminding people to come out and vote AGAINST those who want to take that ‘Right’ away from them….
Republican political groups and anti-abortion advocates are no longer focusing on federal abortion bans on the campaign trail, and leading GOP candidates are hedging on the issue as voters increasingly shy away from strict abortion laws.
At the outset of the 2024 presidential campaign cycle, anti-abortion groups asked GOP candidates to coalesce around a 15-week, national abortion ban. Now, with the GOP primaries for the White House in full swing, it’s clear those efforts have fallen short, as the remaining Republicans realize a national ban could hurt the party in down-ballot races.
By contrast, Democrats have unified to make it their prime 2024 messaging issue. More than a year and a half after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, multiple polls show the majority of Americans support abortion access through at least the first trimester of pregnancy….
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Trump has flip-flopped on the issue of a national abortion ban, though he often calls himself “the most pro-life president in history” and claims credit for the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Speaking last year at the Faith and Freedom Coalition summit, he said there “remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life.” The campaign also ran a paid Meta ad campaign in October 2023.
But he also during the same time period told “Meet the Press” that he didn’t “frankly care” if abortion was left to the states in lieu of a federal ban…
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Trump has also said exceptions to bans are important for winning elections.
“We’re living in a time when there has to be a little bit of a concession one way or the other,” Trump said earlier this month during a Fox News town hall in Iowa.
“You have to win elections,” he added. “Otherwise, you’re going to be back where you were, and you can’t let that ever happen again. You’ve got to win elections.” ….
According to exit polls in IA and NH abortion is way down the list of important issues for Republicans and Republican leaning voters.
However it is now a driving factor for Democrats and Democratic leaning voters.
Basically Republicans got what they wanted with Trump appointees overturning Roe. For decades the pro choice majority put abortion low on the list because Roe being overturned was hypothetical.
In short being “pro life” used to have the upside of motivating voters to turn out for you with minimal risk of energizing the opposition. Now the complete opposite is true.
DOUBLE Amen Scott….
GOPer’s ARE joining Trump in tryin to help Democrats for November WINS!
There have been an estimated 64 thousand rape related pregnancies in states that have outlaaswed abortion post Roe.
That’s 64000 cases where a victim is forced to carry evidence of the felony committed on them.
If they did otherwise? Well the leader of the GOP Donald Trump has said there needs to be “some kind of punishment” for women who go through with terminating evidence of said crime.
Of course he does. He’s the face of the Republican Party–which worked for 49 years to reverse Roe v. Wade.