They have seen the hand writing on the wall and they are scared, they told member, Sh… Don’t talk about abortions.
They are struggling to hide behind that famous curtain, you know the one. The one you are not suppose to look behind.GOP Senate candidates soften their abortion stances amid a post-Roe losing streak
In key 2024 battleground states, some Republican Senate hopefuls have quietly shifted elements of their abortion positions
NBC News
By Adam Edelman
December 9, 2023Republican candidates in states that will determine control of the U.S. Senate next year have quietly shifted their stances on abortion rights in an attempt to combat Democrats' success running on the issue.
In key 2024 battleground states, some GOP Senate hopefuls have subtly begun to place more emphasis on situations in which abortion should be legal, while others have made clear they oppose a federal ban on the procedure.
The shift in focus comes as Democrats have continued to win elections across the country by forcefully emphasizing their support for abortion rights in the 18 months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Republican strategists have urged their candidates to oppose a national ban, while party leaders have simultaneously implored them to address the issue head-on.
Democrats say Republicans are trying to soften stances that may have been deeply unpopular with a majority of voters.
In Arizona…
During her unsuccessful 2022 run for governor in Arizona, Lake said she supported an 1864 law banning almost all abortions in the state — she called it "a great law that’s already on the books" — that briefly snapped back into effect after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.Do you believe her? Has she seen the error of her ways or is she lying?
She now offers a more nuanced position: opposing a federal ban and acknowledging that her own views regarding state policy conflict with some voters’ preferences.
In a statement on her campaign website published earlier this fall, Lake said that while she “wants to do everything she can to help women choose life, to choose to bring that blessing into their own existence,” she “also recognizes that a majority of people in this country and in the State of Arizona hold the view that abortion should be legal with restrictions.”
In Pennsylvania Dave McCormick has also changed his tune,
McCormick, who faces little opposition for the chance to run against Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, said at a Republican primary debate during his unsuccessful run for Senate last year that life begins at conception and that "in very rare instances, there should be exceptions for the life of the mother."With a wink and a nod all of a sudden he is backing off… Has he seen the error of his ways or is he lying?
Democrats began running ads against McCormick in Pennsylvania featuring those statements this July — two months before he’d even entered the race — prompting his campaign to spend much of its first several weeks clarifying that he had also said that he’d supported exceptions for abortion care in cases of rape, incest and saving the life of the mother.
In Ohio…
Moreno has said that “Republicans should never back down from their belief that life begins at conception and that abortion is the murder of an innocent baby.” Earlier this year, in an attempt to define his views on a ballot measure that voters passed in Ohio last month to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution, he falsely claimed that the measure would let a rapist “force” a woman to get an abortion.Has he seen the error of his ways or is he lying?
More recently, Moreno has offered more nuance about his position on the issue at the national level. He said in October that he supports a federal 15-week abortion ban that would include exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother — but would also want to allow states to issue additional restrictions.
Has any of them really changed? Or have they realized that banning abortion is a losing proposition?
But then their true colors pops up again...GOP, kneecapped on abortion politics, struggles to find a message
The Hill
By Julia Manchester
September 14, 2023Republicans are struggling over how to craft their message on abortion, an issue that has repeatedly kneecapped GOP candidates and that is seen as a huge problem next November.
No consistent message has emerged from the GOP presidential field, which has been all over the map with its strategies for winning over voters on the issue.
At one end stand hard-line abortion opponents such as former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), who have argued for stiff bans on abortion across the nation.
Meanwhile, candidates such as former President Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley have urged restraint, warning that Republicans risk losing suburban women voters and others over the issue.
Yet even Haley and Trump have tough stances on abortion. Trump is directly responsible for the overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision; three of his Supreme Court nominees made up the majority decision. Haley, during her time as South Carolina governor, also backed legislation that would severely limit abortion rights. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not said whether he supports a federal ban on the procedure but signed a six-week ban on the procedures with exceptions in his state.
This is what they want for the nation! This is what they think will get them into power.Want to see what Republicans want for abortion rights nationally? Look at Texas.
Are Republicans the ones you want to trust when it comes to a woman's right to make her own reproductive healthcare decisions?
USA Today
By Rex Huppke
December 10, 2023Texas is showing Americans the dark future women face if Republicans have full control of abortion rights.Think about what's happening here. In the year 2023, a woman and her doctor have to ask a judge’s permission to get an abortion. And when that permission is granted, a man seated in the state attorney general’s office defiantly says: “No. I won’t allow it.” Then the state's high court puts everything on hold while Cox and her family suffer in fear and uncertainty.
The state’s abortion laws are so draconian a 31-year-old woman had to ask a judge to grant her and and her doctors permission to end a nonviable pregnancy that is putting her health and future ability to have children at risk.
And when a Travis County district judge granted a temporary restraining order late last week that would allow Kate Cox to have the medically necessary abortion, Republican Texas Attorney General immediately sent a letter to the three hospitals where her doctors have privileges threatening prosecutions and civil penalties. Then he filed a petition with the state Supreme Court asking that the ruling be blocked. The Court paused the ruling Friday, leaving Cox both in limbo and in danger. She has been to the emergency room four times in the past month due to complications with the pregnancy.
Texas' abortion laws are putting a woman through hell
We Now Have More Damning Evidence of the Devastation Caused by the End of Roe v. WadeI remember, when abortion was banned back in the 50s and 60s… they rich had a “Vacation in Switzerland,” and the poor had an appointment with a coat hanger.A new study shows that abortion travel has doubled since Roe was repealed last year.
The New Republic
By Tori Otten
December 8, 2023A new study found that the number of people who travel out of their home state for an abortion has doubled since the nationwide right to the procedure was rolled back.
Nearly one in five patients traveled out of state for abortion care in the first six months of the year, according to a study released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute. In comparison, during the same period in 2020 (two years before Roe v. Wade was overturned), just one in 10 patients had to travel for care.
“We knew that more people have been traveling across state lines for abortion since the end of Roe, but these findings are stunning nonetheless, and powerfully illustrate just how disruptive the overturning of Roe has been for tens of thousands of abortion patients,” Isaac Maddow-Zimet, a Guttmacher data scientists and the study lead, said in the press release.
Abortion travel may also be affected by the growing “brain drain” out of Republican-led states. Young professionals such as ob-gyns have begun leaving red states due to restrictive GOP laws and threats of repercussions for simply doing their job. If someone needs an abortion and lives in a state where the procedure is technically legal, they may still need to travel out of state because there just isn’t anywhere to get an abortion nearby.
How many young women are having second thoughts about getting a job in Texas or Florida?
Remember; an elephant never forgets! It took them over forty years to overturn Roe v. Wade. And don’t think for a minute that they gave up making banning abortion the law of the land again.
A leopard cannot changes its spots.
Update December 15, 2023 8:00 PM
I just came across this...
He can’t hide, he can’t sidestep it, he has to get a spine and owe up it.Ted Cruz Really, Really Does Not Want to Talk About That Texas Abortion Case
The Republican senator is ignoring press inquiries about what’s happening in his home state.
The New Republic
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
December 14, 2023Texas Senator Ted Cruz appears to be avoiding talking about the controversial abortion case in his state—by any means necessary.
The day after Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two with a fatal fetus diagnosis, was forced to leave the state to access abortion care, Cruz cruised past and skirted reporters, refusing to comment on the situation.
“Just call our press office,” Cruz told several reporters.
“I have, and I actually haven’t received an answer. So, is there anything that you’d like to say right now on this?” asked NBC News’s Kate Santaliz.
“Call our press office,” Cruz repeated.
Cruz has never been shy to hop into the abortion conversation before. After the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson, Cruz described the decision as a “momentous moment” and a “vindication for the rule of law.” His silence now could be a sign that the ruling might impact his chance of reelection next November.
And in another New Republic article...
The pro-life rebranding is thus proceeding exactly as I predicted it would, with the most extreme elements of the anti-abortion movement driving policy forward and grabbing headlines for the fringe ideas they’re birthing and the militancy by which they carry them to term.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is running scared from this story. Meanwhile, among the Republican presidential candidates, who have the most at stake when it comes to putting lipstick on the party’s anti-abortion pig, mealy mouths are the order of the day. As NBC News reported, none of the candidates “were willing to outright say they disagreed with Texas’ decision to deny Kate Cox an abortion, but they also weren’t jumping to defend the Republican politicians in the state.” There never were such sterling examples of courage and conviction. Nikki Haley, who has strained herself trying to locate a middle position on this issue, offered this nonsense: “We have to humanize the situation and deal with it with compassion.”
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