get an abortion. you write schmartly how they believe this helped them in the midterm campaign in terms of turnout. but that if you go state by state and, you know, abortion restrictions there are as many states today than back immediately after dobbs. so progress politically but not policywise, is that a fair way to put it? i think the huge change here, the overarching change is the political dynamic changed. bource rights groups have been saying for year, the public is with us, the public supports us but the reality was when it came to the polls the people turning out to voight on abortion were opposed to abortion. that changed in the midterms and abortion rights supporters really showed up. biggest place were in ballot initiatives. six of them and the abortion rights side won all of them so i think that s where we will see where the abortion rights side is going. we have that map up and the language or effect of all these initiatives was different depending on which state you
and so how does that strategy play forward as we go into 2023 then the 2024 presidential cycle? i was saying this earlier in a meeting that it s ironic but if you go back to 2004 george w. bush re-elected president when you had the anti-same-sex marriage ballots in ohio. do abortion rights forces see this as significant as on the policy fight but politically in a presidential year? yi, i think they see it significantly for them on a policy fight, right? but first of all there are only ten states that where the abortion bans are strict and you can do a ballot initiative. that limits the map there but the other thing, this is not necessarily just a big boon for democrat, right? there are some states where the ballot initiative got more votes than the democratic candidate. some people are coming out and supporting abortion rights on the ballot but still supporting republican candidates. so it s not a guaranteed slam dunk for democrats. kate zernike.
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underlying bills are enacted. these narratives have been weaponized many times in the past against our community to enact discriminatory laws, to encourage extremist rhetoric and enable violence. this is i think the next 10 or 15 years of american life whether you pick abortion, the supreme court says it s up to the states and red and blue states doing different thing, gay rights, transgender rights, same issues coming ahead to us. right. certainly what sort of the rights and access and protections you have pay really depend on what state you are in and another point, what i m struck by today listening to stories coming from the hearing this morning is that contrast that that there is with what we saw at the white house yesterday. we saw thousands of people on the south lawn. i think the biggest crowd the white house has had during president biden s term in office celebrating the signing of the same-sex marriage bill. people were dancing and today s hearing is reelally a sobering
write in the piece, incredibly well reported piece that anti-abortion groups are pulling back from ballot initiatives pushing to reinforce abortion restrictives where they ve had success. where should we watch for that to happen? well, i think, you know, as always in this fight we look to texas as the leading edge. it s taking this big swing and trying to get rid of abortion pills which are, you know, illegal, so there are two ways to get an abortion, surgical or an abortion by pills. they recognize 54% are done by pills and trying to sue the state of texas is suing the fda saying they were improperly approved. that s the big swing. you re sticking to what they ve done before, pass really strict guess jason talibans saying in other states and state legislatures you cannot have an abortion past six weeks. they re trying to chip away at the time frame in which you can