House Republicans Already Working On National Abortion Restrictions

According to new reports, Republicans in the House are already working on legislation that would restrict nationwide access to abortions - and they aren't waiting to introduce it until after the midterms. Republicans want to give their base some red meat to support before the midterm elections, likely as a way to convince them that, if they get the House back, they can put these laws in place. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republicans in the house of representatives are making it crystal clear by literally telling us that they're gonna pass a national abortion ban here in the United States. And some of them aren't even waiting for them to, you know, win in the midterms and take over the house in January. No, some of them are actually working on the legislation now. And Kevin McCarthy, the, uh, leader of the house Republicans has said, Hey, I support this. So we may actually end up getting Republicans proposing these types of, uh, legislation before the midterms. And right now let's see there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 different pieces of legislation that different Republicans in the house are working on or have worked on in the past that they've said, they're gonna bring back. So five pieces of legislation that would restrict abortion access nationwide. Some of it which could come again before the midterms. And of course, if they introduce this legislation ahead of the midterms, they know it's not gonna pass, but their base will see that they did it.

And they will see that these godless evil Democrats voted it down. So the only way to get it to pass is to send more Republicans to Congress. So politically speaking, it's a smart move. Uh, in terms of your rights and your privacy here in the United States, it's probably one of the worst things that could happen either way with Republicans poised to take back the house in the midterms. This legislation will in fact end up getting passed by the house. I mean, next year, uh, some of them have even said like, it's literally the first thing we're gonna do. Like the day we get sworn in we're coming in and we're voting on this legislation. So it won't get passed the Senate. So it's pretty much dead on arrival. And even by some miracle for Republicans, if it did pass the Senate, Biden's gonna veto it.

And no matter what they want, they will not have the numbers to override a presidential veto. So this isn't going to happen yet. Cause let's not forget after this year's midterm elections. What do we have? We got more elections coming up in two years. We're gonna have Republicans campaigning on this. They're gonna use the defeat of it as they're rallying cry for 2024 for the Senate, for the presidency and for the house. That's what they want to do. I mean, sometimes as I've, I've said plenty of times, excuse me, sorry. Um, legislation is designed to fail sometimes and it's designed to fail to get the voters angry. And when you get the voters angry, you get them energized and you get them active. That's when they show up to the polls, that's when they reward your party for trying to do the thing that they want. The problem Republicans obviously could run into here is that a majority of Americans don't want this, right? A majority of Americans are angry at the Supreme

Court for overturning Roe versus Wade. So it may not have the electoral outcome that Republicans think it will just because the public opinion on this issue has shifted so far to the left. That Republicans are in a, uh, smaller and smaller minority, pretty much with each passing year. And that is probably gonna get even worse with the overturning of Roe and the abortion bans we're seeing in states across the country.