Muddying the Abortion Waters

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Democrats have turned abortion into a potent campaign issue ever since the Supreme Court released its 2022 Dobbs decision, successfully portraying Republican opponents as a threat to women's rights. With GOP candidates now moving to the middle and engaging on the issue, Democrats are making false claims about their opponents' positions. Who's campaigning more effectively, and do the left's abortion distortions pose a risk to women's health? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:29.0	The issue of abortion has been a political winner for Democrats ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022,
0:37.0	but will that prove to be the case this election?
0:40.0	Republicans are beginning to address the issue and the Democratic response suggests
0:45.0	the left is a bit worried about whether abortion's political power is waning.
0:49.6	Welcome to Potomac Watch, I am Kim Strasssel and with me to discuss this hot button topic.
0:55.0	Today are my colleagues Alicia Finley and Manet Uquay Berua.
0:59.0	Democrats have campaigned on abortion
1:03.0	very effectively ever since the court's Dob's decision which sent the issue of abortion back to the states.
1:08.0	In the 2022 cycle and in off-year in special elections and in state initiatives that have been held on abortion
1:15.1	Democrats have been very effective at using it to keep a voter attention on that
1:20.6	subject to divert attention away from issues like inflation or the border
1:25.6	and to paint Republicans as very extreme on abortion and intent on taking away women's
1:31.1	reproductive rights and they've done very well with it.
1:34.4	But we are seeing a little bit of a shift this year.
1:37.0	We've got more Republicans that are moving to the middle on this, but also more Republicans leaning in on it, willing to talk about it to state their
1:45.8	positions and to try to reassure voters.
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