Abortion Threatens to Paralyze Republicans

“Top Republicans are in a state of paralysis over abortion, watching — with one eye on the 2024 ballot box — as a cascade of new restrictions threaten to dig the party into a political hole,” Axios reports.

“The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade last summer was a huge victory for the GOP, but the backlash to new abortion restrictions has been furious — and could box Republicans into defending rigid, unpopular policies in next year’s elections.”

“That backlash already helped drive Democrats’ over-performance in the 2022 midterms and their landslide victory in last week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a campaign that focused squarely on abortion rights.”