The decision by the Supreme Court to allow a sweeping abortion ban in Texas to take effect has intensified one of the most fraught issues in American politics heading into the 2022 midterm election. What the Supreme Court ruling means for politics:
decision by the Supreme Court to allow a sweeping abortion ban in Texas to take effect has intensified one of the most fraught issues in American politics heading into the 2022 midterm election.
“It’s not the answer to all of our prayers. Our goals are much more nuanced than changing the law. We need to change culture,” Nance said, adding she was eager for Roe to be undone so she could wage the fight to end abortion on a state-by-state basis.“We’re anticipating this cascading effect of even more bills being introduced this way,” said Jamila Taylor, director of healthcare reform at the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank.
“People a lot of time don’t think about state-level politics when it comes to abortion because Roe and the Supreme Court has been a backstop,” said Amy Fried, professor of political science at the University of Maine. “If that backstop is taken away, states can decide to prohibit abortion or limit it to a fairly large extent.”
The issue also spilled into California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom’s allies said they would use the Texas ban to motivate young people to vote against the effort to recall him. Larry Elder, the antiabortion Republican front-runner to replace Newsom if the recall succeeds, showed little appetite to draw attention to abortion rights, saying that there is “zero possibility” that California would restrict abortion access if the court toppled Roe.
“Sending a message about Biden will be the defining message of the midterms, just like in 2018, President Trump was leading the conversation,” Bliss said.Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster working for McAuliffe’s campaign, said the Texas law will help Democrats define the GOP as a party that is “off-the-reservation extreme in a way that makes voters, including moderate and swing voters, very reluctant to turn the keys of the Congress over to them.
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