Some Schmo wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:52 am
We now have incontrovertible proof that every thing the GOP does is hypocritical and in bad faith, not that was ever in doubt.
This country is fu-cked. The idiots have taken over.
Yes, McConnell's stated determination to bring a replacement for Ginsburg to a vote before the election is outrageously hypocritical. As for the survival of the ACA against the current suit brought against it by several states, perhaps there is still a chance that it will survive, as even some prominent conservatives have opined that the whole premise of the suit is absurd. Hopefully enough of the conservatives on the court recognize that to save the ACA.
Perhaps even Roe vs. Wade is not yet doomed, despite the fact that:
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.
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.
Susan Collins of Maine, in particular, has let it be known that she will draw the line against voting for a candidate who is known to favor reversing Roe vs. Wade. I found it particularly interesting than even Mitch McConnell is included among those who declined to sign that amicus brief.
Those who signed the brief wrote, “Forty-six years after Roe was decided, it remains a radically unsettled precedent: Two of the seven justices who originally joined the majority subsequently repudiated it in whole or in part, and virtually every abortion decision since has been closely divided.”
But the public is not divided on abortion. In 2019, public support for abortion rights is the highest it has been in 20 years of polling, according to the Pew Research Center. A reported 61% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and only 12% of the public want to see abortion made illegal. A third of Republicans support abortion rights, according to a 2017 Pew Research poll, and in states where lawmakers have attempted to ban abortion entirely, most voters do not support it. Only 31% of voters in Alabama approved of the latest law that would ban abortion in all cases, making zero exceptions for rape, incest, or the pregnant person’s life.
