Posted on Jan 10, 2023
Republican delivers brutal reality check to her own party on abortion
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House Republicans may have narrowly clinched the majority during last year's midterms, but one GOP lawmaker is urging her party to admit the reality of the disappointing election in regard to the issue of abortion.
A week into the new Congress, House Republicans are expected to move swiftly on anti-abortion bills. Dozens of influential advocacy groups have handed the new GOP majority a list of demands, calling for the implementation of a national abortion ban.
The renewed push to limit abortion rights comes as House Republicans are presented with their first chance to drive the agenda on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. But Representative Nancy Mace cautioned her colleagues against seizing on the opportunity, arguing that November's disappointing election will be only the beginning of the GOP's demise.
A week into the new Congress, House Republicans are expected to move swiftly on anti-abortion bills. Dozens of influential advocacy groups have handed the new GOP majority a list of demands, calling for the implementation of a national abortion ban.
The renewed push to limit abortion rights comes as House Republicans are presented with their first chance to drive the agenda on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. But Representative Nancy Mace cautioned her colleagues against seizing on the opportunity, arguing that November's disappointing election will be only the beginning of the GOP's demise.
Republican delivers brutal reality check to her own party on abortion
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Abortion is "bad"...unless mistresses of Republicans get pregnant from extramarital affair.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/a-republican-theme-on-abortions-its-ok-for-me-evil-for-thee
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/a-republican-theme-on-abortions-its-ok-for-me-evil-for-thee
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An illustrious list of Republican men are publicly anti-choice, but privately have supported women in their lives having abortions
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue
This is what Republicans are trying to stop - people aborting tissue. That is what a pregnancy looks like in the first trimester. That's what is aborted in the first trimester.
Later in pregnancy abortions aren't common and only done when the life of the pregnant person is in danger and/or the fetus is no longer viable. Later in pregnancy abortions are wanted pregnancies and very traumatic for the person who was carrying that pregnancy.
This is what Republicans are trying to stop - people aborting tissue. That is what a pregnancy looks like in the first trimester. That's what is aborted in the first trimester.
Later in pregnancy abortions aren't common and only done when the life of the pregnant person is in danger and/or the fetus is no longer viable. Later in pregnancy abortions are wanted pregnancies and very traumatic for the person who was carrying that pregnancy.
What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures
In 13 US states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy. But we rarely see what such tissue really looks like
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."What we're doing this week is paying lip service to life," she said. "Nothing that we're doing this week on protecting life is ever going to make it through the Senate."
"If we're going to get serious about saving lives, and maybe we should include access to birth control, that would make sense, right?" Mace continued. "What are we doing to protect women who are victims of rape or victims of incest? We're doing nothing."
A 2022 poll conducted by Pew Research found that the majority of Americans, 61 percent, believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
And historical trends suggest that support for abortion is on the rise. According to a Gallup poll released last year, the percentage of Americans who consider themselves "pro-choice" has risen to its highest level in decades, with 55 percent agreeing with the position.
Mace said that she plans to file legislation that would move House Republicans "in the right direction," saying it would include measures that "everybody can agree on, even Republican or Democrat."
..."What we're doing this week is paying lip service to life," she said. "Nothing that we're doing this week on protecting life is ever going to make it through the Senate."
"If we're going to get serious about saving lives, and maybe we should include access to birth control, that would make sense, right?" Mace continued. "What are we doing to protect women who are victims of rape or victims of incest? We're doing nothing."
A 2022 poll conducted by Pew Research found that the majority of Americans, 61 percent, believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
And historical trends suggest that support for abortion is on the rise. According to a Gallup poll released last year, the percentage of Americans who consider themselves "pro-choice" has risen to its highest level in decades, with 55 percent agreeing with the position.
Mace said that she plans to file legislation that would move House Republicans "in the right direction," saying it would include measures that "everybody can agree on, even Republican or Democrat."
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