After GOP underperformance in November’s midterm elections, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution pushing the strictest antiabortion legislation possible.
that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy nationwide, many Republican candidates tried to avoid discussing a possible national abortion ban on the campaign trail.Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, criticized such candidates for hesitating to talk about abortion.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday seized on the RNC’s resolution, calling it “extreme” and “out-of-touch.” “The Republican Party’s renewed vows to destroy reproductive freedom and threaten women’s livelihoods just raised the stakes for voters in 2024, and made every vulnerable House Republican more at risk of losing,” DCCC spokeswoman Nebeyatt Betre said in a statement.Roe v. Wade and abortion access in America
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