Perspective: History shows that when abortion rights have seemed most at risk, voters revolt — even in conservative states.
forces their best opportunity in five decades to limit access to the procedure, it could also usher in a dog-that-caught-the-car dynamic for Republicans. For decades, abortion has benefited the GOP — in part because of the deep sense of grievance among conservative Americans on the issue.
In 1990, the Idaho legislature took up a bill that would have created the country’s most restrictive abortion regime. Written with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — thought to be the Supreme Court’s decisive vote on abortion at the time — in mind, the bill permitted abortion only if a rape victim reported the crime to police within seven days. An incest exemption applied only if the victim was under 18.The bill proved bitter and divisive.
Crucially, he framed the issue, in part, as an outsider-sponsored assault on Idaho sovereignty, a campaign by professional agitators bent on making the state an expensive and contentious proving ground for how far any legislature could push back against“Somebody thought Idaho looks like a patsy,” Andrus said in his veto announcement. “I submit to you: Idaho is not a patsy.
With the abortion bill and its fallout looming over the election, Andrus won a fourth term with nearly 70 percent of the vote against a challenger who attempted to make abortion a central issue. Additionally, Democrats won three of the top five statewide offices, carried both of the state’s congressional districts for the first time since the 1960s and picked up enough seats in the state senate to share control with the GOP.
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