A new wave of reporting from the long weekend confirms that Texas’ six-week abortion ban and other GOP-led anti-abortion efforts “risk driving away voters the party needs” and “could very well be the tipping point” in the midterm elections.
Every Republican on the ballot “will be forced to defend the Texas law” and own their party’s toxic agenda on women’s reproductive health care. Democrats in key battleground states are already calling out the GOP’s ongoing efforts to try and strip away health care coverage from women and families, ensuring that this issue will be front and center in the 2022 Senate elections.
Read more:
Bloomberg: GOP-Led Abortion Bans Risk Driving Away Voters the Party Needs
The Atlantic: What the Texas Abortion Law Means for the Midterms
The Hill (Opinion): Press: Texas hands Democrats a great big gift
Axios: Democrats’ next moves after a stunning SCOTUS loss on abortion
Newsweek: Republicans Are Not Celebrating the Texas Abortion Law. Here’s Why
CNN: Opinion: The GOP’s Texas-sized mistake on abortion
Washington Post: Analysis | Abortion, voting rights, guns and covid: Texas Republicans go all in
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