The timing and contents of Republicans' anti-abortion legislation aren’t mistakes or accidents.
, Sen. Lindsay Graham introduced a national 15-week abortion ban in the U.S. Senate. The bill, the first Republican abortion ban proposed since’s end, contains exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the pregnant person.
The timing and the legislation aren’t mistakes or accidents. Instead, they reflect the long game that Republicans and abortion opponents have been playing on abortion for decades, one that helped them overturnand make abortion illegal in a dozen states –– moving the goal posts to the right. A decade ago, a leading Senate Republican proposing a 15-week abortion ban would have been unthinkable:was the established law of the land, and the Supreme Court had already previously upheld it.
To understand how this strategically deployed messaging tool is functioning, take a look at the responses of some other leading Republicans. Commenting on the ban proposal, Sen. John Cornyn toldthat he’d like to “have each state handle those issues.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell echoed him, saying, “I think most of the members of my conference prefer that this be dealt with at the state level.
But their records reveal that they are lying, just like they were lying when Republican-nominated justices said that
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