Mitch McConnell says a national abortion ban is 'possible' as GOP candidates dodge topic

[Polybius]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — Republicans are on the verge of a long-sought legal victory — striking down Roe v. Wade — but their political candidates are in no rush to talk about it on the campaign trail.

GOP campaign officials are advising candidates to downplay and soft-pedal the prospects of anti-abortion legislation as they battle pro-choice Democrats for control of Congress and various statehouses across the country.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told USA Today that a national abortion ban is possible if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.

Said McConnell: “With regard to the abortion issue, I think it’s pretty clear where Senate Republicans stand.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/07/mitch-mcconnell-says-federal-abortion-ban-possible-gop-dodges-topic/9687867002/?gnt-cfr=1

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I don't think Mitch has any idea the firestorm ahead

or the GOP casualties at the ballot box. The entire GOP has picked a fight with every woman in America.

[LenaBaby61]

6. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[True Blue American]

33. I also think Mitch

I also think Mitch is unaware that not all Republicans agree with his 1950 thinking.

[Larissa]

56. Yes, and women are mad as hell

Per social media tomorrow night (May 9th) rally at Alito's house. Women want to be heard because it's apparent that those in power aren't listening and/or just don't give a rat's a$$. How does a group in their ivory tower just make massive decisions impacting upon millions without even seeking insight into the potential impact? We won't go back.

[JI7]

2. We need to have McConnell's face along with him saying

this be shown everywhere.

Show the type of person who wants control over women.

[roamer65]

3. How do you spell relief?

S-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N.

That’s how I spell it if GQP nutcases try to cram this crap through.

Blue state secession.

[elleng]

5. Oh right, that'll work

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https://www.gkgigs.com/list-of-blue-states-and-red-states/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/07/us/abortion-access-roe-v-wade.html?

[roamer65]

8. It's coming.

Especially if Roe v Wade is overturned and the GQP passes a national abortion ban.

The differences between the states will then be just about as wide as it was in 1860.

[lordsummerisle]

50. I didn't know the minority could introduce bills n/t

[piddyprints]

19. Thanks a bunch.

Many of us live in red states and can’t relocate. If we could, we’d leave the country.

Meanwhile, my right wing evangelical nutcase in-laws live in blue states.

So how will that help exactly?

[mountain grammy]

23. We have a lot of evangelical wingnuts unfortunately..

two are county clerks who messed with the election process. We are all mail in ballots and a mostly blue state and yet the trump love is strong around here.

[pwb]

4. Thank you wealth class owned media for your opinion.

But we are going after you pukes full force. It doesn't matter what message you might try. Pukes are fucked.

[agingdem]

7. you know who's going to take the pukes down in red states?

Republican women...the same women who hated Hillary and held their noses and voted for Trump...my son and his family live in a very white, very Republican Idaho suburb...my daughter-in-law was shocked when two of her neighbors asked her if she would join them in a women's march protesting the Court overturning Roe v Wade...my daughter lives in a white right North Carolina enclave...many of the women are going to DC to join the protesters outside of the USSC...four fucking years of Trump and his toxic bilge was ok but denying these women the right to choose...a bridge to far..thank GOD

[orleans]

9. so now they'll hold their noses and vote for the right of choice over their bodies?

we'll see, right?

[agingdem]

10. true...

I think of all the white right idiots railing against big government entitlements..but don't touch their Medicare and Social Security....and the reason these backward morons have Medicare and Social Security is because of Democrats...

[Stuart G]

12. Yes, that is totally correct..."Republican women",,,and...."the right to choose" ..That is it..

Telling a woman, if she can have a baby...by the Supreme Court of the U.S. Government is totally stupid.

...repeat.............NO ONE TELLS A WOMAN IF SHE CAN HAVE A BABY OR NOT HAVE A BABY....

.....................THAT IS NOT COMPLICATED. iT IS UP TO THE WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND OR PATNER.

....................... NOT THE SUPREME COURT.

YES, MILLIONS OF WOMEN ARE OFFENDED BY THIS RULING AND THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE SHOWN IN FIVE MONTHS.

YES, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS, DEMOCRATES AND NON AFFILIATEED WOMEN.

.................................This could be a onetime event, but it will happen this November 2022.................

...................Remember. this: This is a personal right that women have had for many years, and taking this right
to decide on whether or not to have a baby, is a mistake that the Republicans will never forget. These judges that made
this ruling, were appointed by Republicans, and if we get that word out, this November will be a pay back to the
Republican Party that will not be ever forgotten.

[agingdem]

16. this is ingrained into the American psyche..

Roe v Wade is/was a woman's guaranteed forever physical/emotional safety net...rape, the life of the mother, a non-viable fetus, ectopic pregnancy.."God forbid, but just in case"... and now gone because 5 incompetent, lying skewed right judges have this thing about subjugating women..and as loathsome as they all are, Amy Comey Barrett is by far most insidiously abhorrent of them all..'relinquishing parents rights after birth" (adoption) ..solves the burden of an unwanted pregnancy ...oh my fucking god, can that woman be any more amorally callous?!!!

[ShazzieB]

32. I agree, but I'm going to nitpick about one small detail.

IT IS UP TO THE WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND OR PATNER.

Sorry if I sound nitpicky, but "partner" implies a committed relationship, which is not always the case. A lot of sex takes place between people who are not in a committed relationship with each other, and sometimes pregnancies result. That's just a fact. A woman who gets pregnant from a one night stand (for example) isn't necessarily going to ask her fuck buddy for his opinion about what she should do, nor should she have to.

There are also women who are trying to get out of an abusive relationship and find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. I've read stories about women getting an abortion in those situations because it would be too flat out dangerous to have a child tying them to their abuser.

Then there are all those rape and incest situations.

These are just a few examples of cases where there is no "partner" or where the "partner" is someone who the woman would rather not involve in her decision. I think the way I would state it is this: "It is up to the woman and whoever SHE chooses to involve in the decsion."

I hope I'm making myself clear. I'm half asleep at the moment, so it's hard to be sure.

[JenniferJuniper]

49. Not nitpicky at all,

No one should have control over someone else's body. Husbands and partners included.

[CentralMass]

17. I'm not so sure about that.

[True Blue American]

34. The women are speaking

And Politicians better listen!

DeWine was running all over Ohio bragging that he would sign the abortion bill right after the Primary! Then bingo, a popular Lady Mayor brought Dayton to the present, remodeled the whole city, including the really bad west side. Helped people through a massive tornado, massacre.

DeWine promised a gun control bill after being booed off the stage. Instead he signed an open carry, did away with training. Police are not allowed to ask if you have a gun. Scandal after scandal. 5 gerrymandered districting maps turned down by the Court, led by a Republican. DeWine decided to wait on the Court decision before he signed the bill, dead silence since then.

Whaleys first ad said Mike DeWine entered politics in 1974. Ohio was first in the nation on wages, one paycheck could support a family. Today Ohio is near the bottom.

[Evolve Dammit]

54. OH has been moving right since Reagan. The KKK was active since my early recollections. Grand Dragon

lived in Lodi, Imperial Wizard was in OH as well. Gov. Rhodes declared martial law during Kent State anti-war protests and we know that result. Many wished more were killed. It's always been red except in the northeast and college communities. Gee, amazing what education can do. No wonder they want to crush it and privatize everything... Well on their way

[True Blue American]

57. Now the areas of Hamilton, Cincinnati

Where the jobs are moved left. Northeast is left.

It is a funny thing all the counties up the river put Obama over the top. Red for 100 years.

[PXR-5]

11. Most women around here

think abortion should be banned. I am in suburban Charlotte, NC.

We have lived here for over 23 years, we have decided to move back to NJ.

[Stuart G]

13. I do not believe that most women in the U.S.A. want ..."abortion to be banned"...

...That belief may exist in some parts of the country, but in total 70% of the total country is in favor of Roe vs Wade.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

51. I think you're right...

...they only SAY they want it banned as a form of virtue signalling. But if an unwanted pregnancy happened to them or a family member, even if they are virulently anti-choice, they still sneak off to get one.

I post this on DU every so often... [link:https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/|]

“We have anti-choice women in for abortions all the time. Many of them are just naive and ignorant until they find themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. Many of them are not malicious. They just haven’t given it the proper amount of thought until it completely affects them. They can be judgmental about their friends, family, and other women. Then suddenly they become pregnant. Suddenly they see the truth. That it should only be their own choice. Unfortunately, many also think that somehow they are different than everyone else and they deserve to have an abortion, while no one else does.” (Physician, Washington State)

[True Blue American]

35. :)

[Midnight Writer]

42. Same around here. Most of the outspoken, anti-abortion people I know are women.

I can't think of any men I've talked to who really care one way or another. That is, if you asked them flat out if they are against abortion, they'll say yes, but it doesn't seem to be something that they give a lot of thought to.

Some women I know really go off on the subject, really passionate about "murdering babies".

Just my experience. I am in a very red area.

[LogicFirst]

14. All they did was flex the "control" muscle, much like the Taliban reinstating the burka.

The Rs gaveth and tooketh.

[True Blue American]

36. Perfect example!

[Stuart G]

15. Mitch has said too much..quote, "a national abortion ban is possible if the Supreme Court overturns

Roe v Wade ".........." I think it's pretty clear where Senate Republicans stand."

[HighFired49]

25. Sounds like too much to me, too, but

He just gave every Democrat running for nearly any office a perfect campaign advantage! Thanks, Mitch. Keep telling them that you want to take their rights away.

[ificandream]

18. I think Repughs like to say things to scare or outrage. This might be one of those things.

I don't see how Repughs can make that happen. That doesn't mean we relax. But let's not panic. At least yet.

[BlueIdaho]

20. It's also "possible"

Mitch could be hung up by his heels from a lamp post in front of the US Senate building. Keep it up Mitch.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. You made me chuckle for first time today. They were going to hang folks on 1/6. Guess

everything is "on the table" at this point. They want 1800's politics, then it works both ways.

[BlueIdaho]

26. Thanks, I speak metaphorically

Of course…

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

62. Metaphorically, of course, I understand. ...

... Being an optimist, I avidly scan the obituary page every day.

[BlueIdaho]

63. I share your optimism

[NowsTheTime]

22. Start calling attention to stuff like this:

We may not convert hard core Magas but that's not who we we need on board...

https://www.americanpartisan.org/2022/05/we-cant-wait-on-the-supreme-court-in-louisiana-abortion-could-become-a-crime-of-murder/

Texas six week time frame with no provision for rape or incest plus you neighbors enforce as vigilantes..and some other states copying some of this.....

[Docreed2003]

27. Welcome to DU

I'd suggest avoiding posting RW sources like that rag "American partisan"

[Turbineguy]

24. An excellent idea.

That we we can have a decisive Democratic election victory instead of this limp wristed majority where republicans can made sure the government does not work.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Say goodbye to Republican control of Congress

For a long long time.

[Kablooie]

29. I'd hope so

But there are a hell of a lot of godfearing women in th US that strongly support banning abortion
everywhere.

[SunSeeker]

30. Misogynistic cowards won't even own what they're doing.

[C Moon]

31. Anyone pregnant with the Turtle's child, should definitely be an exception in the law.

How does the GOP produce the creepiest of humans?

[True Blue American]

37. The kids he has

Will have nothing to do with him.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/12/1936744/-KY-Sen-Even-Moscow-Mitch-s-Daughters-Have-Turned-On-Him-For-Becoming-Trump-s-Enabler-In-Chief

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6237459/Mitch-McConnell-family-blasts-Supreme-Court-nominee-Brett-Kavanaugh-Republicans.html

https://jezebel.com/even-mitch-mcconnells-daughters-probably-hate-him-1842835529

[ShepKat]

38. someone please...

put a pregnancy suit on that asshole... for 9 months

[Novara]

39. So much for "state's rights"

And if you all don't think they will ban pregnant women from the workforce, think again.

This is ALL to dilute the power of women. They are scared to death of allowing women to play on an even playing field because their privilege is lost. They would have to actually compete with women who are smarter and more capable than they are. So their answer is pregnancy slavery. And then they will restrict what pregnant women can do, like working. They'll say it's to "protect the fetus" but it's ALL to subjugate women.

WE HAVE TO ELECT MORE DEMOCRATS TO THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Stop these motherfuckers before they make all women nothing more than forced breeding vessels.

[disndat]

40. Just keep talking, Mitch

and you will soon become a minority leader.

[disndat]

41. Just keep talking, Mitch

and you will soon become a minority leader.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

53. He is the minority leader.

Dems have a bare majority, which why Manchin and Sinema have such an outside influence in the chamber.

[roamer65]

43. Michigan will soon say "Fuck you, Moscow Mitch".

When we strike down the old pre-Roe ban, and then if you pass a national ban we will ignore it.

[dalton99a]

44. Kick

[ejbr]

45. Fortunately for Mitch

We live in a society of imbeciles that have signaled they will vote for the party that voted against their stimulus checks, taxes for the wealthy, infrastructure spending in their districs, and lied about the election to the point of insurrection. Why not vote for the people going after your rights?

[malthaussen]

46. Uh-huh. That escelated quickly.

What about "letting the States decide," eh?

-- Mal

[Bayard]

47. "Downplay and soft-pedal," the subject

Just like TFG's Supreme Court nominees at their confirmation hearings.

[calimary]

48. I love how "quiet" the GOP is right now. Slinking along hoping not to make any noise.

It’s a “tell”.

It strongly suggests they know what they’ve done AND, perhaps also, what they’ve unleashed, and they sure don’t want to draw any unwanted attention to it.

[cstanleytech]

52. I think a lot of Republican politicians are actually worried as they used abortion as a hot button

issue to get out the vote.
Now if it's overturned they will lose that as an option to rally their voting base of morons.

[TexasBushwhacker]

55. Well, so much for "states rights"

Or women's

[24601]

58. Absolutely Wrong! If the DRAFT Opinion becomes Law, there would be no Constitutional authority for

Federal Legislation.

Any attempt to implement such would be struck down, in accordance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, as exceeding powers delegated to the Federal Government.

[Polybius]

59. I agree, but does it work both ways?

Would a national pro-choice abortion law violate the 10th Amendment too?

[24601]

60. It probably would.

[ck4829]

61. Chilling.