Not so long ago, Republicans called Democrats the ‘party of abortion’ as an insult, or a pre-election attack line. Now, it is the Republicans, as the party against abortion, who are losing. This is a grim reality for Americans who believe that the unborn deserve protection.
Since Dobbs, in elections where abortion is on the ballot, the party of abortion keeps winning
Since June last year, when the Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs, overturning the right to an abortion under Roe vs Wade and returning the issue back to state legislatures, the Democrats have won over and over in elections all over America by campaigning to ‘preserve access’, as they like to say, to abortion services.
Yesterday, it happened again – in Virginia, Ohio, and even the profoundly Republican state of Kentucky. In Kentucky, the Democratic Governor Andy Beshear, who has campaigned for exemptions to the state’s abortion ban, won re-election.
In Virginia, the Democrats took full control of the General Assembly after Republicans had campaigned for a law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks’ gestation (In France, it’s 14 weeks, by the way).
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