I heard Biden is getting the border under control too. That was a big issue for him.
Inflation getting fixed.
Russia retreating
Covid over
Republicans trying to ban abortions
Republicans launching witch hunts against Biden
Trump
Blue Wave
I forgot abortion. It's why Republicans are going to lose in 2024
This explains why the pro-life summer of triumph, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned
Roe v. Wade, led to a season of such demoralizing political outcomes. Voters in
Montana,
Kansas, and
Kentucky in November rejected ballot measures to make abortion illegal; just last month, in Wisconsin, voters
elected an abortion-rights supporter to the state supreme court.
Yet the movement’s activists don’t seem to care. Thirteen states automatically
banned most abortions with trigger laws designed to go into effect when
Roefell; a Texas judge this month
stayed the FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, setting in motion what is sure to be a drawn-out legal battle; and some lawmakers are pursuing restrictions on traveling out of state for the procedure—what they call “
abortion trafficking.”
Even as the anti-abortion movement lacks a Next Big Objective, a new generation of anti-abortion leaders is ascendant—one that is arguably bolder and more uncompromising than its predecessors. This cohort, still high on the fumes of last summer’s victory, is determined to construct its ideal post-
RoeAmerica. And it’s forging ahead—come hell, high water, or public disgust.
The groups this new generation leads “are not afraid to lose short term if they think the long-term gain will be eliminating abortion from the country,” Rachel Rebouché, a family-law professor at Temple University, told me.
And it doesn’t care if American voters don’t agree with it.
www.theatlantic.com