Republicans are trying to find a new term for ‘pro-life’ to stave off more electoral losses
Republican strategists are exploring a shift away from “pro-life” messaging on abortion after consistent Election Day losses for the GOP when reproductive rights were on the ballot.
At a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans this week, the head of a super PAC closely aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., presented poll results that suggested voters are reacting differently to commonly used terms like “pro-life” and “pro-choice” in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, said several senators who were in the room.
The polling, which NBC News has not independently reviewed, was made available to senators Wednesday by former McConnell aide Steven Law and showed that “pro-life” no longer resonated with voters.
“What intrigued me the most about the results was that ‘pro-choice’ and ‘pro-life’ means something different now, that people see being pro-life as being against all abortions ... at all levels,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said in an interview Thursday.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said the polling made it clear to him that more specificity is needed in talking about abortion.
“Many voters think [‘pro-life’] means you’re for no exceptions in favor of abortion ever, ever, and ‘pro-choice’ now can mean any number of things. So the conversation was mostly oriented around how voters think of those labels, that they’ve shifted. So if you’re going to talk about the issue, you need to be specific,” Hawley said Thursday.
Honestly I think abortion should be reserved for emergencies only, and we could actually make that feasible if we just encouraged birth control instead of punishing women for existing... but.. Republicans don't want a solution. They want to be mad and sexist.
Birth control can fail
Fund development of better birth control
Would help society more than funding new jails to house people who had miscarriages in states where that's illegal.
Do you think 10 year olds whose fathers rape and impregnated them should have just used birth control?
No, I think that would definitely qualify as an "emergency" due to it being an incredibly extraneous, dangerous, and fucked up situation.
I also think "Dad" needs to be burned at the fucking stake in this instance, and medical care to remove the.... thing... inside of the victim is unquestionable.