Why didn't they overturn Roe v. Wade?

[Permanut]

From January 2017 until January of 2018, the Republicans controlled the Executive branch, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court.

During that time, Congress could have passed a law based on Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, to limit the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court — This requires a simple majority of both Houses of Congress and the president’s signature. If the president vetoes the bill, the veto can be overridden by two thirds of each House.

I'm going to remind all my wacko thumper relatives that the party of "family values"; the party that has railed against Roe v. Wade since it was passed in January 1973; the party that promised to overturn Roe v. Wade when they had the opportunity, had that opportunity for two years, and did absolutely nothing about it.

Disclaimer: I am firmly in support of Roe v. Wade, just shining a little light on another case of gross hypocrisy in the Trump party.

[doc03]

1. They couldn't run on the abortion issue nt

[Lochloosa]

2. It's a money maker why would they?

[jimfields33]

3. Takes 60 to pass and then it might actually need 67 due to constitutional issues

They want Supreme Court to do it and bypass all the incredibly hard work it would take to make it happen.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. They don't really want to ban abortion. It would be a loss o#

an important part of their hold of the evangelical vote. They don't mind chipping away at the edges to keep the faithful hopeful, but they need it as a talking point.

[John1956PA]

6. Yes. I have read that they do not want to lose their "wedge issue." n/t

[Autumn]

5. Republicans aren't against abortion, it has come out that many have paid for them for their GF's

and their wives. They just use it to rile up the idiots who think Republicans value life. They don't value any life, just their own.

[mwooldri]

7. I believe during the Bush years the GOP controlled both House and Senate.

So more than two years.

Republicans have a heart disease, and are as much a conservative as Jill Stein is a Democrat.