Ballot initiatives—not party politics—are allowing new majorities to emerge in support of more lenient abortion policies. MsReads via TheAtlantic
and opposed to abortion on principle. Campaign messages reached those who, at some level, believe that people might have good reasons to end pregnancies.
Since the 1980s, the U.S. Republican Party has catered not to the majority of voters but to those it believes care the most about preventing abortion access. Since that period, negative and affective partisanship—hostility to leaders and voters in the opposing political party—has grown, making voters reluctant to break ranks when electing legislators, even when they disapprove of other policies sponsored by their party.
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