There's too much money to be made.
We fought to overturn Roe to give the decision back to the voters.
It is now up to us to convince our fellow citizens to support life.
I think Republicans need to still say they value life, recognize that it is now a state issue (where they will fight for life there), and that at a federal level they want no federal funds or facilities used for abortions. I think that is where Trump is at today, plus he has consistently opposed late term and partial birth abortions, supports except for life of the mother, etc. I think these are good to state, as Republicans and Trump still have values, as president or as a party. Otherwise, washing our hands of the issue, means we now support whatever Democrats want to promote and legalize.
Hawley is mistaken. Abortion is no longer a federal issue. Trump gets it, and Hawley doesn’t.
It’s not really that we disagree. It’s that tbe nuances don’t play well in soundbytes. If you were to make the election a national referendum on abortion Democrats would win 400 electoral votes. It’s not even to say thay it’s because the country supports it. You will die by the soundbyte. You have to be strategical in some cases. Does it serve life if you have 60 Democrats in the Senate? It does not.
Republicans now think they can completely abandon pro-lifers.
This is legally not true in those States that instituted more stringent protections. Dobbs did a lot for the 10th Amendment too.
Dobbs was one step forward.
Trump and the RNC ignoring the fact that abortion is a national hot button topic is one step back.
So called conservatives who yell “STATES RIGHTS” is another step back.
It’s all or nothing with these Veruca Salts.
It’s far easier to work against abortion on the local level and then move on to help other states to support life than to try to eliminate abortion or regulate it on a national level.
Each success will spawn other successes until finally abortion is a thing of the past.
There's too much money to be made.
Not true. The issue was returned to the states, where it belongs. There is no national consensus on this issue. It is now up to the pro-lifers in each state to change our abortion-furthering culture state-by-state. As this is done, the number of abortions will decline.
The American people don’t support a national abortion ban. It would just elect a Democrat congress and president, which would strip our remaining rights away.
Period.
That’s a blatantly dishonest statement by Hawley. Without Dobbs, abortion on demand would still be the law of the land in Indiana, South Carolina, Alabama, and countless other states.
I’m fine letting this play out at the state level. Dobb’s doesn’t mean “nothing.” It means that each state can legislate restrictions on abortion. Pushing for a national ban will be electoral suicide.
Republicans ALWAYS fold, like a cheap suit!
Abortion will remain an issue long into the future, but as things stand now, I think Republicans should support 100% the return of the issue to the states. And they should fight with every means at their disposal any attempt by the Dims to legislate abortion at the federal level.