Analysis: A few Republicans in red-state legislatures have begun to buck their party and vote against the most extreme measures, as other signs of concern abound.
For now, Republicans seem to favor trying to pass measures quietly in state legislatures where they can — and even to use workarounds, like, so it’s harder to put the issue directly into voters’ hands.
But that has sometimes proven difficult, even in states with large GOP majorities. The cautious approach has been labeled wholly insufficient by national antiabortion groups that want more from their party leaders. The party is increasingly all over the map on how to move forward. And the conclusion of the South Carolina debate this week demonstrated that problem perhaps better than anything. Supporters of the bill distributed plastic models of spines, the message being that Republicans needed to stand strong. One of the six Republicans who voted against the bill, state Sen. Katrina Shealy , responded, “The holdouts went on to prominently display the spines as signals not of standing by their party, but of standing up to it.
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