After overturning Roe v. Wade, Republicans are going even farther to block a bill that would protect a person’s ability to cross over state lines to get an abortion, even though there is widespread public support for passing the bill.
The Republican party’s changes to the country have started worrying many people, who think that they may eliminate LGBTQ+ rights. These are valid fears, as recently, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia claimed that heterosexual people will disappear and attacked trans educators calling them terrorists and groomers.
Rep. Matt Gaetz from Florida, like his colleague, was also saying terrible things about people, calling abortion rights protesters ugly, “Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” he said in the same conversation with Greene.
Even Republicans themselves have even started worrying that the GOP has overdone it. “I feel we’re on this sort of seesaw where one party sort of gets the upper hand on social-cultural issues, then they overplay that hand,” said Christine Matthews, a moderate Virginia Republican and longtime strategist for GOP candidates. “Republicans have taken things too far.”
She added that she now somewhat agrees with Democrats claiming that Republicans “want to take our country back to the 1950s.” Matthews also mentioned how terrible she believed some anti-abortion advocates’ comments about a 10-year-old rape victim, telling her that she would be required to give birth under the legislation.
Currently, most Americans disagree with the Senate’s decision to ban travel for abortions, according to a poll done by Washington Post-Schar School that was conducted a month after the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. About 8 in 10 Americans — including 64 percent of Republicans and 85 percent of independents — say states that ban abortion should not be allowed to outlaw travel for the procedure.
The Republican party’s changes to the country have started worrying many people, who think that they may eliminate LGBTQ+ rights. These are valid fears, as recently, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia claimed that heterosexual people will disappear and attacked trans educators calling them terrorists and groomers.
Rep. Matt Gaetz from Florida, like his colleague, was also saying terrible things about people, calling abortion rights protesters ugly, “Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” he said in the same conversation with Greene.
Even Republicans themselves have even started worrying that the GOP has overdone it. “I feel we’re on this sort of seesaw where one party sort of gets the upper hand on social-cultural issues, then they overplay that hand,” said Christine Matthews, a moderate Virginia Republican and longtime strategist for GOP candidates. “Republicans have taken things too far.”
She added that she now somewhat agrees with Democrats claiming that Republicans “want to take our country back to the 1950s.” Matthews also mentioned how terrible she believed some anti-abortion advocates’ comments about a 10-year-old rape victim, telling her that she would be required to give birth under the legislation.
Currently, most Americans disagree with the Senate’s decision to ban travel for abortions, according to a poll done by Washington Post-Schar School that was conducted a month after the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. About 8 in 10 Americans — including 64 percent of Republicans and 85 percent of independents — say states that ban abortion should not be allowed to outlaw travel for the procedure.
