The past week is the moment the GOP caught the car on abortion rights.
But Republicans, for some reason, didn’t celebrate much. I reflected at the time on whether they were becoming the proverbial— achieving a goal they had long sought and having no idea how to handle it politically.
To recap: The Florida Supreme Court last week greenlighted a six-week abortion ban championed by Republicans. Then the Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday. That law not only serves as a near-total ban, even in cases of rape and incest — it also makes providing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison.
Florida went for Trump by about one point in 2016 and by about three points in 2020. Arizona went for Biden by 0.3 percent in 2020 and was the tipping-point state for his victory.in which voters can effectively reverse these laws. Given that even red states have unfailingly voted in favor of abortion rights in recent years, that could allow Democrats to drive turnout and flip voters who view the GOP as too extreme on this issue.
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