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Republicans Terrified That Their Anti-Abortion Crusade Will Cost Them 2020
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6:46Now PlayingRepublicans from Pat Robertson to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy are terrified that the string of strict anti-abortion laws that Republicans are passing are going to cost them dearly in 2020. They deserve it. The Republican Party has no idea how far they are setting back reproductive rights for women in this country, and given the backlash that we’ve already seen, it seems likely that Republicans are going to pay dearly in the near future. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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While Republicans aren't taking much time to celebrate their horrible victories this week, taking away the rights of women all across this country, Georgia, Alabama, and now we've got one coming in Missouri, Ohio. All of these states are working on some of the most restrictive abortion bills this country's ever seen. Alabama really took the cake though. Uh, by passing this law that includes no exceptions for incest and rape. Basically you're a woman. You get pregnant in the state of Alabama, you're 100% going to have to have that baby. If a doctor gives you an abortion, he or she is going to get a prison sentence longer than any rapist ever would uh, same thing in Georgia.
And they had a little victory party when they did this. Yay. We're taking away the rights of women. And mostly it was men who made these decisions because they don't understand women and they don't understand science. But also according to conservatives, they don't understand the American electorate either because people who understand what they're talking about, at least in terms of electoral politics are predicting that these restrictive bills are not only going to get shot down in court the second they get there, but they're also going to hand 2020 over to the Democrats without any problem what so ever and these are just fly by night or Republicans. It's not just your typical, Whoa, I'm some kind of republican strategists and I appear on CNN every other day. I'm talking about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy talking about right wing talk or Eric Erickson and I am talking about the leader of the right wing crazies, Pat Robertson, all of whom have said this is an absolute and utter disaster for the Republican Party because they know exactly what's going to happen by not including any of these exceptions by including these absolutely absurd penalties and basically by flying in the face of Roe v Wade these laws or get struck down in court, they'll get struck down, they'll get appealed where they get struck down again and then most likely they are predicting the Supreme Court won't even take them up because there's going to be no reason for the Supreme Court to take them up.
They won't be able to point to any specific thing that happened in the lower court decisions that would merit the Supreme Court to go back and take a third, fourth, fifth look at it. So even though they got Kavanaugh and Gorsuch up there, they still don't even think they're going to have a victory at the supreme court. That people who will have a victory they're claiming are the Democrats because as they say, the Democrats will be using these restrictive laws to fundraise for the next 10 years. On top of that, pretty much everyone in this country that's not from Georgia or Alabama is pissed off right now. This, and rightfully so, they're energized, they're angry, and they're gonna show up in droves in 2020 to send the Republican's packing. This doesn't end well for Republicans, and it sure as hell doesn't in the way that they think it will.
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