Republicans: “At your cervix, Madame!”

Are the fetus-fondling gawd-bothering Theocrats overplaying their hand?

House Republicans are weighing what kind of national-level abortion ban legislation to pursue if they win the House majority next year, with a 15-week ban or further on the table…

…House Republicans previously passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortion after 20 weeks gestation, in 2015 and in 2017.

They are chomping at the bit to punish women. The article says K-Mac is cool with moving up a national abortion ban to 15 weeks.

Oops!  #IllegitimateSCOTUS ruling on Abortion is motivating Democrats:

“The Court issued its ruling on the morning of June 24. In a CBS News/YouGov survey taken on June 24 and 25, 50 percent of Democrats said the Court’s decision to overturn Roe made them more likely to vote in the midterms. Among Republicans, the number was only 20 percent. A Marist/NPR/PBS poll found almost the same gap: by 24 percentage points, Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say that Court’s ruling increased their inclination to vote.”

“Many Republicans were already eager to vote based on other issues, chiefly inflation. So perhaps their enthusiasm didn’t have much room to grow. Still, they could have indicated that the abortion ruling would add to their motivation. They didn’t. And that makes sense, because voters tend to be mobilized by anger, not satisfaction. The simplest explanation for the partisan gap in polls is that Dobbs has alarmed pro-choice voters, not pro-life voters.”

A recent Emerson College poll:

Thirty-eight percent of voters said the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade made them much more interested in voting this year, an 8-point increase from when the question was asked as a hypothetical in September, according to a new poll.

The poll — conducted by Emerson College in partnership with All In Together, a nonpartisan women’s civic engagement organization — found that 56 percent of respondents said the court’s decision made them at least somewhat more interested in voting in this year’s midterm elections.

In the first week after the Dobbs decision, Democrats raised $80M Ameros for ads.

The WaPo has an article about some of the ways that women are accessing birth control  with mail-forwarding services and tele-health appointments from border-state parking lots to circumvent state bans on legal, FDA-approved drugs. Now imagine you are college-aged and you are having to jump through these hoops?

Yeah, I’d say the callous Yutes of Today might be motivated to vote, and not just the women.

A lot can happen between now and the midterm elections, and yes it is gross to politicize this, BUT the Republican panty-sniffing #IllegitimateSCOTUS committed a political act and we need to fight this as politics. Moderation is for monks and they don’t get pregnant.

UPDATE 1: Another datapoint: