They need to speak up, and do something.
Sen. Cory Gardner is flanked by reporters on Capitol Hill on Dec. 19. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 17 at 11:30 AM Pro-life Republicans who, for decades, have been outdoing one another to appear the most ideologically pristine are oddly mum. Given a chance to comment on the Alabama abortion ban, the culmination of decades of work by the antiabortion movement, they run away.
Sen. Richard Shelby, Alabama’s senior Republican senator, also distanced himself from his state’s hard-line law.Sen. Cory Gardner , when approached, said he was late to a meeting and referred questions to his office. Aides to Gardner did not respond to a request for comment.Sen. Martha McSally , another top Democratic target in 2020, dismissed the Alabama law as a state matter. That’s simply pathetic.
For all their lip service to the antiabortion movement, most antiabortion House and Senate Republicans likely didn’t expect to ever have to defend a “victory.” They, like complacent abortion-rights activists, figured the Supreme Court was always there as a backstop, a way to infuriate and turn out antiabortion marchers but never putting the onus on state legislators — or themselves — to do more than trim around the edges of the issue .
Well, women in Texas can drive to or move to another state for abortions. Huh? They are fine allowing abortions , just not in their state? And, of course, if you don’t own a car or cannot afford to travel or move, well, that’s too bad, I suppose.
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