The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans

[RandySF]

The 11-point loss of the Republican-aligned candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday has influential conservatives rethinking this strategy. “Republicans had better get their abortion position straight, and more in line with where voters are, or they will face another disappointment in 2024,” said a Wall Street Journal editorial.

Ann Coulter tweeted, “The demand for anti-abortion legislation just cost Republicans another crucial race,” and added, “Please stop pushing strict limits on abortion, or there will be no Republicans left.” Jon Schweppe, policy director of the socially conservative American Principles Project, lamented, “We are getting killed by indie voters who think we support full bans with no exceptions.”

But having made the criminalization of abortion a central axis of their political project for decades, Republicans have no obvious way out of their electoral predicament. A decisive majority of Americans — 64 percent, according to a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey — believe that abortion should be legal in most cases. A decisive majority of Republicans — 63 percent, according to the same survey — believe that it should not. When abortion bans were merely theoretical, anti-abortion passion was often a boon to Republicans, powering the grass-roots organizing of the religious right. Now that the end of Roe has awakened a previously complacent pro-choice majority, anti-abortion passion has become a liability, but the Republican Party can’t jettison it without tearing itself apart.

The reason voters think Republicans support full abortion bans, as Schweppe wrote, is that many of them do.



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/opinion/abortion-rights-wisconsin-elections-republicans.html

[SharonClark]

1. In the meantime, they are pushing through

the GQP playbook with impunity in all the red states, regardless of public opinion.

[Irish_Dem]

2. I agree, the PutinGOP couldn't care less about public opinion.

They only need enough votes to cover their cheating.

They want to turn this country into white male christian minority rule.
Nothing will stop them until they are stopped.

[bdamomma]

35. Irish Dem

Just question to you, Do you think Putin is behind with what's going on in the US? Putin would be happy to divide the US?

[Irish_Dem]

37. Absolutely, always ask WHO BENEFITS?

Putin was furious at the collapse of the USSR and blamed the US.
He vowed revenge. He sucked out all of the money from the Russian economy and
became the richest man in the world. Spending his fortune on installing his puppets
throughout Europe and the US.

His goal is to damage western democracies via spreading chaos, division, hatred, revenge,
violence. He funds terrorist groups, including the NRA.
He wants to break up the US.

The GOP agrees with Putin, they spout his talking points every day and in every way.
They want what Putin has, total permanent power and access to all national assets.
The GOP follows the KGB handbook to the letter. Create fear, terror to make a docile population.
Demonize various groups like women, POC, LGBT, etc to create hatred and division.

We know Trump was installed by Putin, Members of Congress have opening supported Putin.
They are on Putin's payroll.

Putin has been so successful weakening the US he was emboldened to invade Ukraine.
China has also aligned with Russia, sharing the same dream of shifting world power.
Their goal is to make autocracies, fascist governments the dominant form of government on the planet.
And to control the world's wealth.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[Coventina]

4. "We are getting killed by indie voters who think we support full bans with no exceptions."

Um....rightly so, because that's exactly what you do support!!

[underpants]

8. Young voters get a two-fer

They are a force the modern system isn’t prepared for.

[calimary]

13. And those indie voters are right.

And I ain’t talkin’ right “wing.”

That’s EXACTLY what they want, hope for, and dream about. What’s next? Women’s right to vote?



This is WAR.

[bdamomma]

21. Contraception

will be next.................they want chaos, they will get it.

This is minority rule...........we will not stand for this. I am so damn angry. They want to burn everything down.

[calimary]

26. I'm so damn angry, too.

How far back ARE they going to try to roll back the clock?

[Ohio Joe]

14. +1 - nt

[BOSSHOG]

19. Knuckleheadus Erectus

It does not make one damn, full, partial, three-eighths. A woman seeking medical health care via abortion is none of you ghouls business. But if religious zealots insist then let’s do away with the separation of church and state. Turn loose the assessors and we will quickly discover what church’s value.

Equal parts ignorance and hate gets ya a Republican.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. "We are getting killed by indie voters who think we support full bans with no exceptions."

you do support bans with no exceptions.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. Beat me to it.

The truth hurts.

[calimary]

30. They ABSOLUTELY DO support total bans.

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They’re just working toward that. But that’s the ultimate goal: To DO AWAY WITH women’s rights. And take OUR control of OUR bodies and OUR lives away from us.

They’ll have their “fun” now. But they’ll PAY in 2024. I bet we keep the White House, get the House back, and expand our lead in the Senate.

I also bet they won’t learn a single thing from that, either. They refuse to accept that they’re swimming against a mighty tide. And they haven’t even considered what’s likely to be a tsunami of younger voters who are wide awake now.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

34. well said. Blue wave in 2024

[Bev54]

6. Are they really freaking out? I have seen no sign of it, they are continuing their anti abortion

antics and going to the extreme, not cutting back. They are so bloody nefarious they cannot see beyond their own arrogance.

[flashman13]

9. It's called hubris and the Repugs have it bad. They THINK they are bullet proof.

Hubris is a central character weakness in almost all tragedies. And we all know that tragedies do not end well for those that think they are masters of the universe. Payback is hell.

[underpants]

7. One issue voters. This was never supposed to be solved.

This and guns are perfect for Republicans. It stems from Atwater’s God Guns and Gays. With one mention of each Republicans have massive swaths of voters in their pocket. Never have to spend another resource for their vote.

What happened is is that the activists got involved in all levels, then they moved up. Requirements for access rights to a local hospital including specific distance, wild unaffordable equipment requirements, and even zoning. They got creative. They got money and moved up. There’s always money in both guns and life.

The top lost control and it soon engulfed them.

Side note - the origins of pro-life come from Paul Weyrich tapping into the evangelicals to protect racist colleges’ tax exempt status. Bob Jones U specifically.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right
They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. I didn't know that. Thanks for the link!

[underpants]

24. It's a great read. Only saw it here a few months ago.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. Post it as an op. It fits today's news very well.

[Sky Jewels]

10. I'm sure all it will take is a little message massaging, and then we uppity wimminfolks

will happily go along with the GOP's Handmaid's Tale agenda.

[calimary]

11. "... or there will be no Republicans left"? Hey, sounds good to me!

Just how far up inside our bodies does the GOP want to go? And for what purpose?

[NowISeetheLight]

12. Own It

“We are getting killed by indie voters who think we support full bans with no exceptions.”

Well…. I seem to recall a lot of RepubQcan fascists claiming “no exemptions”.

[calimary]

15. Because we women aren't supposed to have full rights.

I remember hearing some knuckle-dragger calling into the local talk radio station I used to listen to, who said in all seriousness that “this country started going downhill when women got the right to vote.”

Seriously. No lie. No exaggeration, either.” I was driving and I remember gazing at my car radio, mouth agape, struggling to believe I’d just heard what I heard. Well, dude, whoever you are, wherever you are, you just fucked over half the population of America. Actually, by now, it’s slightly MORE than half.

The “Woman as Property” crowd has a lot to celebrate today.

[ShazzieB]

17. Hell yes, they're calling for no exemptions.

And even when they deign to write any kind of exemptions into their stupid laws, they make sure to word them so vaguely that doctors can't figure out what's allowed and what isn't, AND they make the penalties for making a mistake so steep that everyone's afraid to chance it. The result is a de facto complete ban on abortion.

It's like they're playing a sneaky little game of "Watch us ban abortion completely without saying we're banning abortion completely!"

[kimbutgar]

18. They haven't even fully realized the can of worms they opened with today's ruling either

Women are outraged and repukes are going to pay in 2024.

[bdamomma]

22. oh yes

they will pay..........tic tock....tic tock

[Marius25]

29. Keep in mind though, Trump got over 50% of white women in 2020

Most white women voted for this.

So I wouldn't count on women as a whole stopping Republicans.

[kimbutgar]

31. That was before this ruling actually happened

Reality has set in to what consequences their daughters, female relatives and friends might face.

Because you know birth control is next and I bet TFG women supporters also like sex without worrying about getting pregnant.

[Generic Brad]

23. Pro life that supports weapons of war used to kill our children?

They are pro-forced life followed by pro-snuff life.

[Marius25]

27. I really don't believe this article at all.

If they were so alarmed by the backlash, they wouldn't keep passing more and more strict abortion bans.

[Autumn]

28. And what makes anyone think they give a shit if there is a backlash? News flash.

They don't. The Republican have the power in those sates, they own the judges and the votes. What are those people going to do who are against their draconian edicts? Protest? Yeah, that will work, not.

[Renew Deal]

32. Republicans support full bans, forced birth for rape victims and 10 year old victims of incest.

That is a common position in the republican party.

[dalton99a]

33. Fascists don't back down. They have to be defeated.

By all means necessary that are not expressly prohibited by current law

[edisdead]

36. Fuck that party

Give women their guaranteed rights to bodily autonomy and the fuck right off forevermore.

These damned neanderthals are threatening a hell of a lot more than women's healthcare rights. They want to put women under their thumbs and force them out of their careers and back into the kitchen.