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What Will Prove More Important: Abortion or the War in Gaza?
One dilemma could preserve our democracy, and the other could endanger it.
Women all over the country are finding their options for safely ending pregnancies made impossible and even illegal, thanks to one of the key pillars of the SCOTUS right-wing judicial coup: the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Since that day, when the conservative justices shocked the world, states moved quickly and confidently to force women to relinquish their rights to their bodies.
It’s no secret that Democrats are leaning hard into running on abortion rights for the 2024 cycle. Joe Biden has promised to bring back “the protections of Roe v. Wade in every state,” and Congressional Democrats say abortion rights will be their top issue this coming year.
Democrats’ decision to center the overthrow of Roe is rooted largely in the massive success they’ve had running on abortion rights over the last two years, which helped them win a slew of special elections and outperform expectations in the 2022 midterms, staving off a red wave and keeping control of the US Senate. Pro-abortion ballot measures won in all seven states in which they appeared on the ballot since Dobbs, even in red states like Kentucky, Montana, and Kansas (Abortion Politics Might Not Carry Democrats).
