Women were a pivotal element of Democrats’ success in the 2018 midterms. With abortion policy returning to the center of national attention, women are back in the spotlight as a central force in Democratic politics. hookjan explains:
Ralph Reed, chairman of the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition, said the intensifying focus on abortion will stoke both parties’ activist base in 2020, with each side portraying the other as dangerously extreme.
“This has been a massive awakening among people who weren’t passionate about [abortion rights] because they took it for granted,’’ said Marianne Williamson, an author a spiritual lecturer who isAn early test of how abortion politics is changing could come in 2019 during off-year elections in the Virginia Legislature, where Republicans are defending a one-seat majority in both chambers. Anti-abortion forces are strong in VIrginia, and Democratic Gov.
The focus on abortion comes at a time when Trump and the GOP are still deep in a political hole with women — deeper than in 2016. Exit polls found that Democrat Hillary Clinton beat Trump among women by 54% to 41%. Now, as conservative legislatures are passing abortion laws that conflict with Roe vs. Wade, their supporters are hoping they will bring the issue before a Supreme Court that could curb or overturn the landmark ruling. The court, however, has so farPolls find that about two thirds of Americans want to keep Roe vs. Wade in place. Women are not monolithically supportive of abortion rights — the Alabama governor who signed the law is a woman — but Democratic women feel especially strongly about it.
Responding to the spate of anti-abortion state laws, all the major 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have moved quickly to put the issue front and center. When abortion rights advocates held demonstrations across the country last week to protest anti-abortion state laws, several 2020 candidates, including Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., stopped by the rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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