Trump Announces Abortion now a state issue. He will not attempt a National ban

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(04-10-2024, 11:11 AM)Luvnit2 Wrote: It is now up to the states to come up with their abortion laws.

That's what is interesting about this.  It goes back to the states and in AZ you have a state that currently sits as a "blue state" with two democrat senators (Sinema was elected as a democrat, but it also looks like Ruben Gallego is likely to win that seat next) and a democrat as a governor (again, narrowly thanks to Kari Lake) which just had a state SC comprised of 7 republicans rule to enforce an abortion law from the 1860s.

This isn't a good advertisement for how "sending abortion to each state" will go when you see voters in red states like Kentucky, Kansas, and Ohio vote to protect abortion rights while the handful of republicans in power in those states are doing the opposite of what the voters want.  It makes it look like the plan is for a handful of republicans to enact more strict abortion laws than the populace of the state wants, which is why I'm thinking the real plan for republicans is to get Trump back in office, take back the thin senate majority from democrats and get a federal ban on Trump's desk.

And the other side is that the plan is for AZ to get protecting abortion rights onto the 2024 ballot, which could help Biden not lose AZ or any other state that is a toss up but has responded to Trump's putting this on the states by rolling things back to the 1800s, or so.  

I just can't imagine most voters in AZ are on board with what their state SC has decided, which makes it look like this whole "back to the states" thing makes more sense on paper than in practice.


So far it seems like we are seeing:

1. send it back to the states
2. blue states enable access
3. red states do not enable access
4. people in red states vote to enable access