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    Michael Hiltzik: With a noxious family leave proposal, GOP pretends it's still pro-women despite antiabortion laws

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Jul 13, 2022 5 minutes
    Marco Rubio speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at The Rosen Shingle Creek on Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Florida.

    Having achieved its long-held goal of eviscerating women's reproductive health rights, the Republican Party is now hard at work pretending that it's about to enter a new era of pro-women and pro-family policy.

    A more transparently mendacious claim is hard to imagine.

    Arguments are common that the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning the half-century guarantee of abortion rights embodied in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, sets the stage for a torrent of pro-family GOP policies.

    After the Dobbs ruling was leaked in May, a fellow at the Koch-funded Ethics and Public Policy Center asserted that allowing states to outlaw abortion "compels a greater claim on public resources to support expectant mothers facing crisis pregnancies and to seek to make all parents' lives a little easier."

    Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, whose state produced the abortion ban that the Supreme Court that maybe have an unexpected and unwanted pregnancy."

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