Opinion | Lauren Rankin: Republican leaders asked the Supreme Court to end legal abortion. They may get their wish. - NBCNewsTHINK
Abortion is often painted as a politically intractable issue, one with no clear winner — usually by pundits with no clear understanding of the polls or anti-abortion advocates with an axe to grind.
It’s fitting, then, that Americans United for Life drafted the amicus brief that broke the GOP doublespeak: drafting model state legislation that has incrementally gutted abortion access and rendered Roe vs. Wade all but meaningless for millions while avoiding the spotlight.
Then in the 2010s, state legislatures — many dominated by far-right “tea party” Republicans — began to pass ever-more creative abortion restrictions, many of which were promoted by AUL, including restrictive
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