What Republicans Lost When They Won on Roe

The Run-Up

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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For decades, the mainstream Republican position on abortion rights was clear: Overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue back to the states. But since June 2022, when the Supreme Court’s conservative majority did exactly that, Republicans have faced a question that few seemed to consider beforehand: What comes next? In Arizona, that question is especially important. In that battleground state, Democratic groups have already mobilized to put a citizen initiative on the November ballot that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s Constitution and help increase President Biden’s chances at re-election. So this week, after spending time with organizers who support the ballot measure on the last episode, we are meeting its opponents and exploring the anti-abortion movement in Arizona, which finds itself fractured along new fault lines.

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0:00.0	We're going to start on this street right over here.
0:03.0	It looked a little bit more shady to me.
0:05.0	Today's not too bad though, thankfully.
0:09.0	The breezes make it nice.
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	Yesterday was so hot.
0:14.0	It's another spring day in Arizona.
0:16.2	And once again, we're following around a group of organizers, trying to reach voters on this November
0:21.8	ballot initiative that would entrine the right to an abortion in the Arizona State Constitution.
0:27.6	But these organizers, Catherine and Heather, are targeting a more conservative suburb of Phoenix and they're trying to convince people not to support the initiative
0:38.5	And you work at students for life? I work for students for life. How old are you? How old are you? I'm 16. You're 16. Wow. How did you get involved in this? I got
0:47.8	involved through a club that's at my school. I joined two years ago a year and a half ago because they started it up and I was like oh this is really cool
0:56.2	A student for a life club at school. Yeah was that high school or was that middle school? For me it was eighth grade. yeah. It was eighth grade.
1:02.7	Yeah, so we do a lot with all ages
1:06.6	and we also have like community things as well.
1:08.4	For decades, the Republican position on abortion rights was crystal clear,
1:16.0	overturned Roe v. Wade, and send the issue back to the states.
1:21.0	But since June of 2022, when the Supreme Court's conservative majority did exactly that.
1:27.0	Republicans have faced the question.
1:30.0	What comes next?
1:32.0	In Arizona, that question is especially important.
1:36.0	Because in this battleground state, Democratic groups have already mobilized around this ballot initiative,
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