Today Republicans are all about states’ rights. If they win in 2024, they’ll likely embrace federal activism on everything from abortion to voting, explains ed_kilgore
Here comes a national fetal rights policy! Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images At the moment, the two major parties in the U.S. are polarized on the role of the federal government. Democrats, as has generally been the case since the civil rights era, favor federal activism to establish certain rights and living conditions nationally. Republicans have more and more uniformly adopted the states rights posture the GOP was initially founded to oppose in the mid-19th century.
Fetal personhood protections that restrict abortion nationwide Overturning Roe v. Wade and returning abortion policy to the states has long been a primary goal for an anti-abortion movement that has formed a strong partnership with the Republican Party. But the ultimate objective – enshrined in the GOP platform since 1980 – is a federally established “fetal personhood” right that bans any state laws allowing abortion.
But what appears to be gaining steam, thanks to encouragement from Donald Trump and some conservative ideologues, is the idea that America needs federal legislation to shore up “election integrity.” This could include banning state laws expanding access to the ballot via liberalized early voting , ex-felon re-enfranchisement, and simplified or automatic voter registration.
Because the parental rights movement treats state and local education authorities as inherently untrustworthy, there’s no particular reason its Republican allies should value state’s rights or local autonomy in education.
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