After A Decades-Long Anti-Abortion Crusade, The Right Insists Draft Opinion Is No Big Deal – By Kate Riga (Talking Points Memo) / May 6, 2022
To hear Republicans tell it, it was just another Monday.
The leaked draft opinion, showing that a majority of Supreme Court justices voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, was the almost-culmination of a decades-long right-wing battle. After incremental progress, high-visibility defeats and bloody-knuckled election fights, the anti-abortion movement is getting exactly what it wanted.
Yet many lawmakers, commentators and publications aligned with that movement, rather than popping champagne over the photocopied draft, are instead taking to the public square with gussied-up versions of “you’re being hysterical and this is not a big deal.”
The political calculus behind tempering a generational victory is obvious: these actors have a vested interest in quelling the backlash to what would be an extremely unpopular ruling — a potential tsunami of rage that could endanger even Republicans’ lopsided advantage going into the midterms.
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