ConnorEl
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Welp, since this has temporarily become about abortion...
Jennifer Rubin: Abortion extremists and Kavanaugh defenders
Jennifer Rubin: Abortion extremists and Kavanaugh defenders
...Republicans would be forced to wrestle with the results of their absolutist position and the backlash from women who have never lived in a country where safe and legal abortions were not available. The political damage to the GOP (outside deep-red states) could be severe, ruining chances for the party to hold onto more libertarian, western states, the Upper Midwest and the eastern seaboard.
In sum, the anti-abortion forces — shocker! — misrepresented their agenda. Should they “win” at the Supreme Court (or even in circuit courts with a Supreme Court decision pending), Collins and other moderate Republicans who voted for Trump appointees will be on the endangered list in 2020 and beyond.
Additionally, as extreme state laws make their ways through the courts, women in places such as Georgia and Alabama may be denied abortions even in the first trimester and/or in some cases because of rape, incest or danger to health (if not life-threatening) of the mother, forcing them to become lawbreakers or flee the states. And finally, states that go down this road will face a torrent of public criticism and calls for economic boycotts just as North Carolina did after the transgender bathroom bill and Arizona did after passing extreme immigration laws.
Make no mistake, laws like Georgia’s and Alabama’s have severe real world consequences for women — and for our politics.