Will the Texas GOP abortion law backfire on Republicans?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

"It took about a minute and a half between the Supreme Court's decision to let a draconian, constitutionally bizarre abortion law take effect and the widespread conclusion that it would prove a boon to Democratic political hopes even as it provoked their moral outrage," Jeff Greenfield writes at Politico. "There is plausibility to this notion," but scant hard evidence to support it.

Plenty of Democrats are outraged at the Texas law and its "bounty hunters" enforcement mechanism, and "though some in the GOP are celebrating the moment as a long-sought win for the anti-abortion rights movement, others are minimizing the meaning of the Supreme Court's Wednesday midnight decision that allowed the bill to take effect," The Associated Press reports. "A few are even slamming the court and the law. Or dodging."

"It is going to be a very motivating issue for women who haven't typically been single-issue pro-choice voters," GOP pollster Christine Matthews tells AP. She pointed to suburban women and independents who didn't actually believe Roe v. Wade was in jeopardy and live in areas with competitive congressional and gubernatorial races.

"Democrats are already having a field day with the Texas law," the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote Thursday night. The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, "but this law is a misfire even if you oppose abortion," and it "sets an awful precedent that conservatives should hate. Could California allow private citizens to sue individuals for hate speech? Or New York deputize private lawsuits against gun owners?"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-gop-abortion-law-backfire-123552937.html

[louslobbs]

1. Democrats have to make sure that it backfires

We all have to make sure that it backfires.

[kacekwl]

2. No matter what fresh hell they

concoct they always turn shit into gold with help from the liberal media.

[TheRealNorth]

3. If you don't have free and fair elections

How do we make them pay?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. There is a great deal of anger

Polling shows that the GOP may have gone too far with the permitless gun carry and the bill to abolish Roe

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Women in Texas will be packing...

I would not know if to laugh or cry if I were to read that a rapist had his Johnson shot off in a rape attempt.

What a scenario.

[NCDem47]

5. They overreach, and overreach, and overreach

Pushing boundries on the right and dragging the middle over. Seem to be rewarded. Dems? They as much look sideways and are punished at the polls.

[MatthewG.]

7. In swing states it might.

My guess (and it is a guess) is that as the red states pass these sorts of draconian laws, swing states may move bluer as sizable numbers of basically apathetic voters realize that “pro-lifers” really do want to take their freedoms away.

[traitorsgalore]

8. It'll blowback on them hard

It already is with TickTok trolling them and GoDaddy banning them. Other corporations have no choice but to distance themselves from Texas too. By the elections in 2022 Texas will be considering seceding from the U.S. as they will have created a horrible state for Americans to live in or do business in and will blame it all on "leebrawls".

It's no joke, Texas will seriously considering seceding and when they do, they'll quickly find out that most of America doesn't want them as part of the United States anymore. If I lived in Texas, I'd be trying to move out of there as soon as possible because not only are they hunting women, they'll soon be hunting democrats as well.

[Captain Zero]

9. In Texas, if Ivermectin caused an abortion then

Theoretically ANYONE who recommended the use of Ivermectin in the treatment of Corona Virus could be sued for that abortion.