When the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, Republicans across the country cheered. Freed from Roe’s regulations, GOP lawmakers promptly blanketed the south and midwest in near-total abortion bans.
But, after a string of electoral losses, stories of women being denied abortions and polls confirming abortion bans remain wildly unpopular, the political calculus has changed. Republicans are trying to slow the car whose brakes they cut – and convince voters that, if the
