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Democrats Can’t Simply Defy the Ruling on the Abortion Pill
The more the anti-abortion movement overreaches, the more intensity the issue will generate on the other side.
The intensity of the issue is rising.
Photographer: Moises Avila/AFP
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Eight years ago, establishment Republicans stomached Donald Trump because he was the means to an end. As president, he followed through on his promise to appoint a conservative judiciary that achieved a decades-long goal of restricting access to abortion across the country.
The only problem is that the American public, by and large, does not share that goal. Now the Republicans’ political miscalculation is becoming clearer by the day. And Democrats shouldn’t distract from that with their own extreme rhetoric.