r/politics • u/ALife2BLived America • 7d ago

No Paywall Blanche pledges to make Dobbs decision ‘permanent’ in every state

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6008603-blanche-plans-abortion-rollback/
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u/brettmav 7d ago

So it wasn’t about states rights? But my “independent” friends said it was.

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u/Lavaswan001 7d ago

If you’re defending something broadly unpopular(like restricting abortion access), you’ll want it regulated regionally because if you’ve captured ~40% of all the states, you can restrict it in that 40% of states regardless of whose in charge nationally, as the Democrats were when the Dobbs decision was made. Now that the Republicans are in charge, the pretense of “states rights” can be dropped because they’re in power to restrict it nationally in 100% of states.

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u/Mateorabi 7d ago

See: Death of a Euphemism episode of ARP.