When it comes to his political well-being, Grassley is nothing if not an opportunist.
Grassley’s stance, however, doesn’t mean that he — or his GOP colleagues — have suddenly seen the light when it comes to reproductive rights.
So, no, these GOP politicians haven’t suddenly moderated on abortion. Rather, this election season, they have seen the, and by even larger margins they express hostility toward the total bans on abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest, being passed by conservative GOP state legislators now thatIn September 2021, a poll in Grassley’s home state of Iowa found that
in most or all cases — up from just shy of 50 percent in 2020. In July of this year, shortly after the Supreme Court’s60 percent of Iowans told pollsters they wanted to keep abortion legalYet, Iowa is moving in lockstep with so many other GOP-led states to make access to abortion all but impossible; prior to thedecision, legislators passed a fetal heartbeat law, essentially outlawing abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
Witness the fact that, despite having a long track record of opposing Trump’s more inflammatory statements, he welcomed the insurrection-inspiring ex-president onto the campaign trail with him last year.
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