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Republicans Take Aim at Women
Last month, the Florida legislature voted 78–39 to ban all abortions in the state after 15 weeks. Currently, Florida allows abortions up to 24 weeks, and if the bill becomes law, there are no provisions for cases of rape or incest. The abortion ban bill heads to the Florida Senate, where it is expected to pass. If signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida would join a growing number of states with other restrictive abortion laws, such as Arizona, Texas, and West Virginia.
As Roe v. Wade enters its 49th year, it has found itself in the crosshairs of the GOP, whose political agenda continues to lurch farther to the right and is determined to deploy a Schrödinger’s cat approach to governing.
Some of the Republican party’s founding principles were small limited government, free markets, and limited government oversight. Yet, in 2022, the GOP has abandoned its values, opting to chase news cycle headlines and throw red meat to its base like a lion trainer at the zoo.
Red states across the country are swiftly moving to pass restrictive abortion bills before the Supreme Court’s ruling in June on the constitutionality of Mississippi’s bill, which bans abortions after 15 weeks. The law directly contradicts Roe v. Wade’s 1973 ruling, which “established the constitutional right to abortion and said that states cannot ban the procedure before…
