Posted on 05/16/2019 8:54:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For decades, abortion has been an ideal issue for Republicans. It let them appease their base, bring millions of Catholic and evangelical voters permanently into the fold, and portray Democrats as extremists — all without much political downside. But their success may very well carry the seeds of their ultimate defeat.
The right to abortion has enjoyed solid constitutional protection since the Supreme Court made it legal throughout the land in 1973 with its decision in Roe v. Wade, a decision it has repeatedly affirmed. An entire “pro-life” movement grew up in reaction. Congress and state legislatures have tried to restrict the right. But the basic liberty recognized by the court has remained almost completely intact.
Its survival, however, has been a reliable political blessing for the GOP. Abortion provided a cause that Republicans could run on year in and year out — and one that overrode all other concerns with a significant segment of the electorate.
Among evangelicals who might have been nauseated by Donald Trump’s unholy lifestyle and predatory treatment of women, abortion was the issue that compelled many to vote for him. Nothing was more important than installing Supreme Court justices who would champion the rights of fetuses.
The beauty of abortion as a political issue is that the efforts to block it didn’t energize “pro-choice” voters nearly as much as it did “pro-life” ones. Many Americans who support legal abortion could vote Republican anyway because they saw no real reason to worry.
With the Supreme Court protecting the right to choose, states had little incentive to pass abortion curbs. When such laws were passed, they got struck down. So “pro-choice” moderates could disregard GOP abortion dogma and vote with other issues in mind.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Steven Tyler wrote a song about that...Dream On
Yes, preventing the commercialization of baby murdering is bad for Republicans...uh huh...
People have come to learn that dead babies are a commercial harvest and that the original excuses to allow abortion were nothing but weasel words.
Today there are countless methods to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.
“Today there are countless methods to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.”
Women have the right to control “their” own body.
Like keeping their legs together.
(and portray Democrats as extremists)
Why does anyone have to portray Democrats as extremist?
Killing babies up to the moment of birth?
Open borders?
Electing Islamists into our Government?
Why of course! Go away schmucks!
I guess we are going to find out.
Morals in this country have slid so far down the tube by now that I suppose it is possible that more people out there will support baby killing at the ballot box than we could ever believe was possible.
Wishful thinking. Keep doing it, MSM-Democrats.
The article is typical projecting by the Left. Of course it won’t boomerang. It will demoralize and damage the Left. They always hate it when we win. Please God, deliver us from the “moderates” in the GOP who will use this as an excuse to throw down their weapons and turn tail in surrender.
Fight on! We’re winning. Expect yet more flack as we zero in on the target.
It could boomerang on Republicans. If the law is fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, the election could go the wrong way.
It very well could boomerang on the GOP, but lives are worth it. If Americans are going to punish Repubs by booting them from office for saving the lives of the unborn, they’re not worth representing, anyway. There’d be no more noble cause for which to lay down a sacrifice.
The tide is turning against the minions of Satan and their desire to murder
The power of good is far stronger than the power of evil
It takes but one light to dispel darkness
We can either do it now, or it will be done years from now when this country is filled with Mexican Muslims.
It’s adorable that the media thinks that news cycles last that long.
Remember, Supreme Court decisions are the LAW OF THE LAND, . . unless the Democrats disagree.
RE: Remember, Supreme Court decisions are the LAW OF THE LAND,
No they’re not. It is THEIR INTERPRETATION of laws made by the legislature or the constitution itself.
They can make BAD DECISIONS because they are not infallible.
Chicago Tribune: Alabama’s abortion bill could boomerang on Republicans
Another credible source.
crap by any name.
I am ok with that though.
I think we should take what gains we can for what is right, and focus on that point.
What would you say to God when you are faced with accounting for the time you were faced with a choice of opposing killing of innocent human life,,,,or not????
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