As I See It
Republicans struggle with abortion politics
You may not see the word abortion the next time you head to the polls, but it is clear abortion is very much on the ballot in 2024. That is clear after recent voting in Ohio. A referendum that would have made it harder to protect abortion rights failed overwhelmingly in a vote that drew a huge turnout. That is not a surprise. A year ago, shortly after the Supreme Court decision outlawing Roe v Wade, voters in the largely conservative state of Kansas rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have declared there is no right to an abortion in the state. Earlier this year, Wisconsin justice Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the state Supreme Court after vowing to protect a woman’s right to an abortion. The abortion issue has become an albatross around the neck of the Republican party. The Ohio ballot measure failed by large margins, even in counties that Donald Trump won in 2020. Polls continue to show that a majority of Americans support a woman’s right to an abortion, and the issue is so important to them they are turning out in record numbers in the polls. Republicans hope to take back the Senate and hold the House in the next election, but abortion politics, as we are seeing, will make that a challenge.
Greg Symons
August 11, 2023 at 6:40 am
Never in my life would I believe that “the right” to kill children would be the most important issue for some people in the way they vote.
kevin
August 11, 2023 at 9:22 am
I am not sure how ‘not killing someone’, how taking responsibility for your actions, how being responsible, being accountable has become, A Struggle with Abortion Politics?
There is a plethora of methods to prevent pregnancy, all affordable by the doer, and the doeee.
Abortion is the easy way out, and don’t cite those edge cases about, incest, rape, life of the mother, blah blah blah. If those are the predominant reasons for abortion, then our society is in a world of hurt.
If we cite abortion is needed because of convenience, quality, affordability to a person’s life plan, why then there is a boat load of folks in nursing homes, and other places that need to be ready to fight off the desire of those folks taking care of them to kill them off.
Life has become cheap, and people treat it like it is cheap, discarding it like a disposable product, buying and selling people like a commodity. The Politics of Abortion should be renamed, Respect for Life.
Kent Porter
August 11, 2023 at 4:42 pm
AS I SEE IT ABORTION IS MURDER. SO STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT SHAW WRITE IN KENT PORTER FOR MAYOR IF YOU LOVE LIFE. MAYOR MITCH AND SCOTTY SHAW HAVE KIDS. RIGHT ? SO WHY DO THEY THINK ITS O.K. FOR OTHER BABIES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE. ???? ????
walden
August 11, 2023 at 11:29 pm
Abortion is a moral and religious matter. If it’s a political issue for someone then they are either without morals, religious conviction, or without courage. And yes, that goes for many Republicans and also members of the clergy.
nick
August 18, 2023 at 7:59 am
Interesting, the democrats push abortion as a constitutional right.
The democrats feel an abortion is acceptable even during delivery.
The majority of democrats especially the left opposes the death penalty. Hypocrite’s.
The Catholic Church opposes both and does a lot of charity work with women who decided their child has a constitutional right to life.