e-sac concerning the topic of abortion — a tightly confined dogmatic position that has put their options on a diet ahead of the 2024 election season, even as some party animals advocate for moderation.

Last year’s Supreme Court decision to bulldoze a woman’s constitutionally protected right to an abortion was supposed to confine the issue of abortion access to the (American) states, where local political pizza-toppings would best represent the electorate’s preferences. However, the recent decision by a conservative judge in Texas, who swiped left on the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, demonstrated that the pursuit of nationwide restrictions on abortion has remained married to the idea since the high court’s nullification of Roe v. Wade.

A few days earlier, abortion was the leading actor in a liberal judge’s crushing victory for a hotly-contested and pivotal seat on the state Supreme Court in Wisconsin. Some Republicans are waving red flags, warning that the inflexible position of their party’s stiletto-wearing activist base could be sending them on an electoral bungee jump next year, sans the bungee cord.

Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, has been as persistent as a group text when it comes to pleading for more flexibility on first-term abortions and exceptions for rape, incest, and the life and health of the mother. She stated, “If we can show that we care just a smidge — like, we offer the world’s tiniest hug — we can show the country our policies are reasonable. Because we keep diving into these rabbit holes of extremism, we’ll just keep losing ground, and I won’t fit in my prom dress. I’m about ready to pull my hair out that I’m the only person who takes this stance.”/n/n Serious news: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/us/politics/abortion-republicans-elections.html