In close races, the abandoned tradition of pro-choice Republicanism could make a comeback to the detriment of the GOP’s ambitious plans for major midterm gains. ed_kilgore writes
The National Republican Coalition for Choice participates in a pro-choice demonstration in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1992. Photo: Viviane Moos/Corbis via Getty Images Last week, the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would have codified abortion rights, died in in the Senate by a vote of 51 to 49. All 210 House Republicans and all 50 Senate Republicans voted against the legislation. This surprised no one, but it’s actually odd in several ways. When Roe v.
These pro-choice Republicans weren’t just rogue jurists . Today’s lock-step opposition to abortion rights among GOP elected officials took a long time to develop. Indeed, before Roe, Republicans were more likely to favor legal abortion than Democrats. In New York and Washington, two of the four states that fully legalized pre-viability abortions in 1970, Republican governors Nelson Rockefeller and Daniel Evans were at the forefront of abortion-rights efforts.
Still, there remained a significant pro-choice faction among Republican elected officials until quite recently.
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