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ALABAMA IVF RULING LEAVES REPUBLICANS STUCK BETWEEN THEIR BASE AND THE BROADER PUBLIC

February 28, 2024

From The Guardian:

Republicans have been forced to stake an uncomfortable position between their anti-abortion base and the wider American public, as fallout from an Alabama supreme court ruling that embryos are “extrauterine children” continues into a second week.

Meanwhile, Democrats have seized on the issue as the forewarned conclusion of decades of Republican policies to restrict reproductive rights, and pointed to contraceptives as the next frontier for restrictions.

Republicans have been “anti-family and anti-women at every turn, and that has proven to be a losing issue for Republicans”, said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair, Suzan DelBene, in a press call on Monday. “Come November, we’ll take back the House of Representative to enshrine the protections of Roe once and for all.”

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