GOP Candidates Put Pro-Abortion Democrats on Defense
Dannenfelser on CBS’ “The Takeout”: GOP should lean in on abortion
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser joined CBS’ Major Garrett on The Takeout, a weekly national podcast. During a 45-minute conversation they discussed midterm elections, pro-life feminism and human rights, the Democratic Party’s tragic abandonment of the unborn, and more.
The main argument: Republican candidates should be leaning into abortion as a winning conservative issue — not running away.
Marjorie’s “Human Rights 101”: You can never build rights on the broken rights of another human being. Democrats in Congress who claim pro-life states’ protections for the unborn and their mothers fall afoul of “international human rights protections for abortion” could use that lesson.
Frank Talk: Republicans Have Momentum Ahead of Midterms
In the premiere episode of Frankly With Frank, SBA Pro-Life America’s Chief Political Strategist Frank Cannon discusses Republican momentum and his predictions for midterm elections.
A new survey by Republican polling firm WPA Intelligence found that, by a nearly 30-point margin, voters believe the Democratic Party’s position on abortion is more extreme than the GOP’s. National Review’s Nate Hochman writes,
“The GOP was momentarily flummoxed by the surge of Democrat attacks following the overturn of Roe. But once Republicans recovered from their defensive crouch on the issue and began going on the attack, pointing out that even the ostensible moderate Democrats running in right-leaning areas refuse to support any restrictions on abortion, left-wing attempts to paint the GOP as extreme lost their potency.”
The pivotal moment? Senator Graham’s legislation to limit painful abortions at 15 weeks gave Republicans a highly reasonable conversation-starter to rally around, in contrast to the Democrats’ Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act, and they began to do just that.
“Get Educated”: Democrats Get Defensive When Asked Real Questions on Abortion
President Biden announced on Tuesday that if Democrats retain their majorities this November, the first bill he will sign in the new Congress will mandate abortion on demand in all 50 states.
Earlier this week we wrote about how some leading Democrats are hiding the true radicalism of their agenda behind Roe v. Wade. That includes the White House:
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre flailed when asked if abortion is Biden’s top domestic legislative priority for 2023. She also refused to condemn or comment on Stacey Abrams’ view that women need abortion because of inflation:
It’s not only media on the Right such as Fox’s Peter Doocy calling the White House out. From our friends at MRC NewsBusters:
Based on Biden’s speech earlier in the day calling for Congress to “codify Roe,” Wegmann asked whether it’d “simply codify Roe or would it go further and overturn individual state abortion restrictions” and then, personally, “are there any restrictions at all that the president would support.” Jean-Pierre offered a predictable non-answer that he wants to codify Roe and protect what was a “constitutional right for almost 50 years.”
The usually even-keeled Wegmann clapped back that she “didn’t answer either question” …
Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski followed up after Wegmann and suggested the administration release the legislative text of what they’d want Congress to pass seeing as how the Women’s Health Protection Act “was broader than — than what I believe you’re talking about now.”
Meanwhile Matt Yglesias, who has written for The Atlantic, Slate and Vox, among others, complains that "Individual Democratic Party candidates keep squandering [their advantage] by staking out a very odd 'no restrictions on abortion under any circumstances' position rather than promising to return to the pre-Dobbs status quo."
Field Update: 3.25 Million Visits to Voters at Their Doors
In the final countdown to Election Day 2022, our ground team is working hard for every last pro-life vote. Our Women Speak Out PAC is contacting over eight million micro-targeted voters in election battleground states – visiting four million at their doors – urging them to choose life on the ballot. Toward that goal, we'll be knocking on 40,000+ doors a day. To date, that effort includes:
Arizona: 654,979 visits
Georgia: 407,781 visits
Pennsylvania: 518,296 visits
Wisconsin: 264,514 visits
Florida: 560,523 visits
North Carolina: 511,244 visits
Nevada: 81,013 visits
In all our battleground states, we’re also communicating with voters via mail and digital information. The “pro-life persuadable” and “pro-life but inconsistent” voters we reach can make all the difference in races with razor-thin margins.
