Simple: 6 week bans aren't going to be popular nation wide. It is also a pretty good play to destroy republican support even in conservative states, specifically because it gives the Left an issue to make.
We saw this in Kentucky and Kansas as both state's abortion restrictions were rebuffed, because it is a huge motivator for the Left. They care about abortion more than the economy, more than war, and way more than crime. To your average Democrat, it is better that 10 child killers go free, than one fetus go murdered by it's mother.
Look at what happened with Montana. Montana failed to pass a law that would make it a crime to leave a baby to die if an abortion didn't succeed. This is a perfectly reasonable measure. But due to Left-wing propaganda, it failed based on the assumption that dying babies would be beaten to death by doctors.
Ohio even had a trigger law that passed a 6 week abortion ban. It's been jammed up in the courts after a crazy account where doctors just assumed that they couldn't preform abortions on rape & incest victims despite there being nothing saying that in the law.
The Democrats want more than anything to frame the entire election around abortion because it's all they are actually doing okay on with their own base. They even claim that the reason the Republican midterms weren't bigger was because abortion rallied bajillions of democrats from every area to beat back the Handmaid's Tale Nazis.
Not pushing hard on abortion is perfectly reasonable. Go win that part of the culture war if you want to make an impression. Please note: you'll need to win it in Republican states.
Simple: 6 week bans aren't going to be popular nation wide. It is also a pretty good play to destroy republican support even in conservative states, specifically because it gives the Left an issue to make.
We saw this in Kentucky and Kansas as both state's abortion restrictions were rebuffed, because it is a huge motivator for the Left. They care about abortion more than the economy, more than war, and way more than crime. To your average Democrat, it is better that 10 child killers go free, than one fetus go murdered by it's mother.
Look at what happened with Montana. Montana failed to pass a law that would make it a crime to leave a baby to die if an abortion didn't succeed. This is a perfectly reasonable measure. But due to Left-wing propaganda, it failed based on the assumption that dying babies would be beaten to death by doctors.
Ohio even had a trigger law that passed a 6 week abortion ban. It's been jammed up in the courts after a crazy account where doctors just assumed that they couldn't preform abortions on rape & incest victims despite there being nothing saying that in the law.
The Democrats want more than anything to frame the entire election around abortion because it's all they are actually doing okay on with their own base. They even claim that the reason the Republican midterms weren't bigger was because abortion rallied bajillions of democrats from every area to beat back the Handmaid's Tale Nazis.
Not pushing hard on abortion is perfectly reasonable. Go win that part of the culture war if you want to make an impression. Please note: you'll need to win it in Republican states.