The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court's decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year's midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year's elec...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court’s decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year’s midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year’s elec…

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    49·
    11 months ago

    “I suspect they’ll rule in favor of prohibitions which is a mistake,” said one vulnerable House Republican.

    There’s such an easy solution to this problem. Just join the Democrats and vote to legalize abortion. You are a lawmaker, after all.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      121·
      11 months ago

      There’s this trope “only Democrats have agency”. It’s where we look at Democrats for failing to do things or making choices, but Republicans are just like automatic forces of nature. We don’t hold them accountable for their actions.

      • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
        61·
        11 months ago

        That’s not a bad philosophy when all you care about is the moral victory. If you care about results however, there’s little use in pearl clutching and acting offended by the idea of fascists doing fascism. It’s what they do. I don’t blame the crocodile for eating the baby, it’s a dangerous reptile that needs to be put down, but it’s predictable and doing exactly what it’s programmed to do. I blame the adults who sat around and assumed they could allow the baby to wander that close to the water’s edge without anything happening, all the while filling its’ head with pro-crocodile propaganda. Individual humans are intelligent beings with agency, groups of humans are stupid and vulnerable to manipulation. Time to get your gun and go gator huntin’.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          That’s not a bad philosophy when all you care about is the moral victory.

          The party abandoned that when it expected everyone to be happy with funding genocide. “Moral victory” was just the party’s excuse for moral cowardice.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        It’s not that Republicans are not responsible for their actions. The issue is they can’t be influenced to be less evil. They’re the Borg, the Daleks, or Sauron’s orc hordes. All we can do with them is try to defeat them.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      There’s such an easy solution to this problem. Just join the Democrats and vote to legalize abortion.

      Then it might pass the house and be filibustered in the Senate. Democrats could get rid of the filibuster for good, but they don’t wanna.