Republicans know that Americans don't support their anti-abortion extremism

[Judi Lynn]

Danielle Campoamor
Thirty-nine Republican senators signed a brief asking the supreme court to overturn Roe v Wade. But who didn’t sign is more telling

Sat 4 Jan 2020 05.30 EST

The anti-abortion movement has one resounding goal: overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 US supreme court case that solidified abortion as a constitutional right. And while this goal is often shrouded in faux concern for the safety of pregnant people or the sanctity of life, dismantling the right to bodily autonomy for more than half the population has always been their holy grail.

With the election of Donald Trump and the appointment of two conservative supreme court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the need to hide this goal from a public that overwhelming supports Roe v Wade has vanished. Recently, 39 Republican senators signed an amicus brief calling for the supreme court to reconsider and overturn Roe. It was the anti-abortion movement going all in – seizing a moment they’ve been working towards since 1973.

This attack on Roe is blatant; it is horrifying for anyone who values human rights; it is worthy of our attention, our outrage and our action. The names of those 39 Republican senators remind us that what so-called pro-life politicians really want is to control the lives of pregnant people by supporting government-mandated forced birth. But just as noteworthy is the senators who did not lend their names to the brief.

The telling absence of Susan Collins (Maine), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Martha McSally (Arizona), Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia), Cory Gardner (Colorado), Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), and David Perdue (Georgia) – all up for re-election in 2020 – is a reminder that the public is not on board with the anti-abortion movement’s ultimate goal. And vulnerable lawmakers know it.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/04/republicans-abortion-amicus-brief-supreme-court

[rampartc]

1. anti abortion is a reliable fundraiser issue for them

and us as well

they must know that abortion laws are ultimately unenforceable.

the fact that young women will be killed and maimed by black market abortions is ok with them.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Some of these sociopaths have publicly supported a death penalty for the women and their physicians.

No doubt of horrific suffering for the women prior to death would send these criminally insane people into ecstatic states from which they'd never return, then their peers could walk them to the edge of the flat earth and toss them over the edge.

[empedocles]

3. 8 up for re-election and quiet. Hmmm.

[McKim]

9. Republicans Will Never Finally Outlaw Abortion

Republicans will never finally outlaw abortion because if they did, the millions of Evangelicals would stop voting Republican. The idea is to keep them dangling and voting.

[CaptYossarian]

10. It's the same with our side and guns. We'd have nothing to run against.

[Mc Mike]

4. Repugs never work for Americans. I'm glad there's a hopeful possibility they'll be righteously

crushed in this next election.

We're not on board with their insane fascist agendas, the public hates them.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Southern Baptists supported Roe v. Wade until politics interfered.

From https://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/when-southern-baptists-were-pro-choice/

“Shortly after the decision was handed down, The Baptist Press, a wire service run by the Southern Baptist Convention — the biggest Evangelical organization in the US — ran an op-ed praising the ruling. “Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision,” read the January 31, 1973, piece by W. Barry Garrett, The Baptist Press’s Washington bureau chief.”

Evangelicals back then believed that government should play no role in personal decisions. The majority of people today still feel that way, but the evangelical minority has been able to ride that issue to political power, and they won’t give up the issue because it gets the people elected or appointed as judges who will do far more to abuse human and civil rights than just overturn Roe.

[dhol82]

6. Exactly!

[yellowwoodII]

7. Yet Evangelicals cheered about Iranian General's assassination!

We would take them more seriously if they weren't so hypocritical about their "respect for life."

[DownriverDem]

8. We were all warned

that the 2016 Election was not just about trump and Hillary. Folks wouldn't listen. Now we are going to pay the price and women will die because abortions will not stop with Roe v Wade being overturned. I've seen where ending gay marriages will come after overturning Roe v Wade. I'm angry because all this could have been avoided.

[Judi Lynn]

11. After they tackle gay marriages, it will be a straight shot to their real passion, stoning!

"Make Earth Great Again" all the way back to the old testament.