She called on fellow Republicans to back off on abortion restrictions that aren’t supported by public opinion. That doesn’t leave a lot of them.
that are easy to stigmatize. These were her examples of “consensus” — some of them eye-rollingly bad but none resembling the loud-and-proud maximum agenda of the post-“There is broad public agreement that babies born during a failed abortion deserve to live,” Haley said. “There is broad political agreement that we should never pressure moms into having an abortion … We can broadly agree that pro-life doctors and nurses should never be forced to violate their beliefs.
Essentially, Haley is saying that seeking “consensus” from a “pro-life” point of view means finding some things that poll at around 80 percent — just like anti-abortion activists used to do when pushing anything more extreme violated the U.S. Constitution. Only now this approach would be dictated not by constitutional law but the laws of politics.
If you listened carefully to Haley, she did not categorically reject the idea of Congress setting national abortion policies, which is the litmus-test demand of SBA Pro-Life America. She simply described the strategy as hopelessly impractical given the need for a trifecta and 60 Senate votes to enact a preemptive statute .
It’s unclear how Haley’s pitch for a strategic retreat will be received in anti-abortion circles. It’s hard to imagine it going over well. But in terms of Republican politicians who don’t really care about abortion one way or the other and look at polls rather than into their own consciences, it must be encouraging to find a presidential candidate who is fixated on the polls — and the massive evidence that Republican-sponsored abortion bans are alienating voters all over the U.S.
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