There may some truth to that but wasn't Trump's fault. He appointed justices who believed the Constitution should be their guide and not social engineering. And they rightfully adjudged that Roe was an unconstitutional law and that the matter belonged to the states.Before Dobbs, the Republicans could placate the Religious Right and Social Conservatives by speaking out against Abortion. This was essentially harmless. With Roe as the law of the land, there was no hope of actually doing anything. And best of all, the Republicans couldn’t be blamed for doing nothing. The Supreme Court had ruled and the poor politicians were powerless to do anything about it.
So some fool in the audience screams that “Abortion is Murder” and the politician could agree and lament about how awful it was and it’s a shame the Supremes gave us this awful ruling.
Then Dobbs came and the Republicans got what they said they wanted. Only, it’s not going the way they wanted.
Abortions After Dobbs
The number of legal abortions has held steady, if not increased, after the Supreme Court’s ruling.www.nytimes.com
Abortions have remained the same, and indications are that there has been an increase since Dobbs.
So the stated goal to stop abortions, has failed. They are about the same and even possibly increasing. So the “have to save lives” mentality is taking it right on the nose.
For decades polling indicated that most people supported a woman’s right to choose. The Anti Abortion people swore that these were push polls. They were fiction. These polls were lies. A vast majority wanted to save the unborn babies.
Even when Abortion was an issue in an election, the Republican would win. But nobody stopped to consider it might be because the voters didn’t think the politician could do anything about the issue.
Now of course we are in a post Dobbs world. The problem is that the Republicans don’t know what to do. It turns out the polls were right. The majority of voters actually are pro choice. In the meantime the Republicans have become defined by fierce opposition to Abortion.
It is worse for Trump. He proudly announced he had done this. He had packed the court with anti abortion Judges who overturned Roe.
The Republicans are now demanding that the important issues, the ones that matter are the economy, and immigration, and the deficit. The voters appear to think Abortion is pretty important.
I personally think that those states that passed laws so restrictive that even I, a very passionate pro life person, saw them as draconian were the ones who created the problem. And that did alarm people who would have been happy with just a little more liberty for the mother and doctor to make reasoned choices. A strong majority of Americans do support some limits on abortion.
But when we become too extreme in the other direction, that results in laws like Ohio passed that again leave the issue wide open. It is highly unfortunate. Republican demanding and exercising dictatorship are no more attractive to most Patriots than are Democrats demanding and exercising dictatorship even though Republicans are more likely to be on the preferred side of the issue.
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