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Originally Posted by Chicks
Arizona Republicans denounce revived 1864 abortion ban in sudden reversal
As the party struggles to talk about abortion, response marks fastest and strongest rebuke of bans since the fall of Roe
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-abortion-ban
So, when they suddenly realize this is a political hot potato that will kill them in the polls, they reverse their long-standing "moral" stance. How typically Repube. F'ing hypocrites.
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It has been a contrived wedge issue since 1980. Civil rights laws and SCOTUS rulings on civil rights effectively took away overt racism as a GOP electoral strategy (i.e., the Southern Strategy), so conservatives (mostly Phyllis Schafly and Pat Buchanan) cooked up abortion as an issue.