Trump, GOP scramble to contain abortion ‘earthquake’<\/p>\n
And the problem for Republicans doesn\u2019t stop at abortion, but extends to the possible curtailment of IVF. A constellation of right-leaning groups<\/a>, from former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s Advancing American Freedom to the Heritage Foundation, have mounted efforts to restrict the widely popular procedure.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Republicans remade the judiciary. It’s haunting Donald Trump.<\/p>\n The right\u2019s judicial recruitment apparatus \u2014 spearheaded by the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, also known as the Concord Fund \u2014 has spent years promoting judges to state and federal benches, far outpacing similar efforts by Democrats. Years of preparation not only secured the conservative majority that ruled on the marquee Dobbs<\/i> decision, which ended the federal right to abortion until viability, but also put right-leaning justices in place to rule on subsequent challenges to state abortion bans and other reproductive health-related cases.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s conflicting abortion stances are coming back to haunt him \u2014 and his party<\/p>\n “Republicans are saying, \u2018We changed our minds; you should have some rights. Don\u2019t look at what I\u2019ve said five years ago,\u2019 and voters rightly know that that\u2019s bulls—,” the person added.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Trump GOP Reaps The Whirlwind On Its Abortion Absolutism<\/p>\n A critical element of the GOP\u2019s anti-abortion fanaticism was always a classic \u201cus versus them\u201d sorting exercise. On one side were God-fearing, chaste, proper, and upstanding women alongside their men and on the other side \u2026 oh my. Usually implicit but sometimes quite explicit was a fictional picture of a pro-abortion world populated by slutty liberal woman, Black women with no self respect or self control, serial baby-makers living out of wedlock, and a vile array of similarly atrocious caricatures.<\/p>\n Layer on top of that mean-spiritedness the MAGA Republican impulse to target, punish, and hurt its foes, and you could anticipate how this might go. Before Dobbs<\/em>, it was easy for Trump et al. to use anti-abortion invective as a weapon. After Dobbs<\/em>, the weaponization of abortion suddenly resulted in lots and lots of friendly fire. It wasn\u2019t just those<\/em> women who were affected, it was all<\/em> women. The line between us and them blurred. What were easy cheap shots became self-inflicted wounds.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n Republicans Are Trying\u2014and Failing\u2014to Clean Up Their Abortion Mess<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a single Republican candidate in Arizona that was prepared for the fallout of this particular decision,\u201d Stan Barnes<\/strong>, a GOP consultant and former Arizona state senator, told<\/a> the Hill. Which is likely why their efforts to contain the backlash have been so clumsy: Even as they scrambled to distance themselves from the ban, Arizona Republicans in the state legislature this week blocked attempts<\/a> by Democrats to undo it.<\/p>\n Read more at Vanity Fair<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump, GOP scramble to contain abortion ‘earthquake’ And the problem for Republicans doesn\u2019t stop at abortion, but extends to the possible curtailment of IVF. 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