Why the Post-Roe GOP Will Only Get More Radical

[Nevilledog]

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate the right to an abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the culmination of the Republican Party’s long and powerful partnership with the anti-abortion movement. This is key to understanding the potential impact of the Court’s ruling; now, that alliance will likely drive even more extreme efforts to eliminate abortion access across the country. For the anti-abortion movement, overturning Roe v. Wade was a hurdle, not the finish line.

Prior to 1973, Republicans were about as likely as Democrats to support the decriminalization of abortion. But within three years of the Roe v. Wade decision, both leading candidates for the GOP presidential nomination favored a constitutional amendment overturning Roe. There were a lot of reasons for this sudden change of direction, including the GOP’s effort to win over previously Democratic southern conservatives and Catholic voters, and the emergence of abortion bans as a top priority of conservative evangelical leaders. After 1980, the die was cast; while pro-choice politicians and voters lingered in the GOP for some time, the Republican Party as a whole never wavered from its anti-abortion stance.

Yet for decades, the GOP couldn’t deliver. By the time the profoundly irreligious and previously pro-choice Donald Trump won the GOP presidential nomination, simmering resentment toward Republicans for failing to produce a reversal of Roe was close to boiling over; the marriage between party and movement had become loveless. So in a great irony, the unprincipled Trump made a straight transactional offer to get ’er done if the anti-abortion movement supported his candidacy. They took the deal.

As Trump’s Supreme Court appointments cleared the path for the reversal of Roe, GOP governors and state legislators went into an anticipatory frenzy. Twenty-six states passed abortion bans with provisions violating Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, ranging from laws hassling providers to pre-viability abortion bans, like the 15-week Mississippi standard that led to Dobbs. When the ruling came down on Friday, 13 states had “trigger” laws designed to take effect the minute Roe died.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. With partisan hacks in control, there is no doubt that the SCOTUS will be more radical

Barrett, Alito, and the other conservatives are all partisan hacks who do not care about the law but want to advance a partisan agenda

[SheltieLover]

4. This!👆

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I'm sure the repubs will get more radical now that they've got their 'victory.'

However, we are not sitting helplessly on the sidelines, wondering what new travesties will befall us.

We are angry.
We are energized.
We are mobilized.

We have just begun to fight.

[Runningdawg]

3. Yep. Today they won the right to pray during sporting events.

In a month prayer could be REQUIRED in all schools. I was a teenager when I watched and listened as they planned this crusade. The people who have laughed at me for the last 45 years aren't laughing anymore.

[Jade Fox]

5. The young people in that picture have a date with destiny they don't know about.....

Call it: Theory Meets Real Life.

At least one of them will find themselves in need of an abortion for some reason.