A majority of Americans support abortion in the first trimester, including many Republicans.
For the last 49 years, Roe has been a useful foil for GOP lawmakers (and many GOP voters) in that it allowed them to draft and support extreme pro-life laws that had no chance of surviving in the court.
Now that Roe is history, GOP lawmakers are going to have to grapple with a reality they hadn't had to face before. Do they draft strict anti-abortion laws to appeal to their base, laws that could turn off large numbers of voters and could result in election defeats?
Some current (R) governors like DeSantis and Youngkin are trying to thread this needle with 15-week abortion limits that are certain to anger their pro-life base but might be a little more palatable to moderates and independents.
Politics is always about winning and voters are going to have to make tough decisions. Do I support the candidate that represents my views 100% but will lose to the candidate who represents 0% of my views or do I find someone in the middle and get 50% of what I want?
I understand. I also believe Americans have been conditioned to accept abortion as somewhat normal over the last 50 years. It doesn’t have to happen but people, men and women (whatever they are?) are selfish. They don’t care that they are taking a life. They use it as birth control. Guys don’t want to take care of some whore’s kid and women don’t want to go through pregnancy because their career, their body their convenience. It’s all about them.
I’m hoping the Roe reversal wakes people up to the fact that abortion is wrong and doesn’t have to happen.