GOP faces new challenge in 2020 abortion fight
Republicans hoping to paint Democrats as extreme on abortion in the lead-up to the 2020 elections are facing a major obstacle in the wake of Alabama’s restrictive new law.
Democratic presidential candidates are seizing on the state’s ban, which has no exemptions for rape and incest, arguing that it shows President Trump and Republicans are the ones who are out of step with average Americans, and that they want to make abortion illegal at all costs.
And while Trump and GOP leaders have distanced themselves from the Alabama law, Democrats say the president’s policies and judicial nominations have essentially encouraged states to pass such bans.
“He has emboldened state legislatures across the country to do the unthinkable — an all-out attack on women’s reproductive freedom,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a White House hopeful, said at an abortion-rights rally Tuesday on the steps of the Supreme Court.
Trump has relied heavily on a messaging campaign that paints Democrats as extremists who support “infanticide” and “executing babies after birth,” believing that will galvanize his voters in 2020.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/444936-gop-faces-new-challenge-in-abortion-messaging-war
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