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Originally Posted by doniston
I am puzzled as to why you think this is another nail in the coffin of the GOP. as far as I know, it was the republicans (consetrvatives) who were in favor of this. I thought, as a liberal, that I was going against the grain of the Liberal agenda. I suspect that comparatively speaking,there are very few Pro-Choice Repubicans
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The Republican coalition depends on people with widely divergent agendas basing their voting for candidates on single issues and ignoring the rest of the platform.
You get pro-choice people who want tax cuts voting Republican, because they never thought that abortion was actually threatened, you get pro-life Christians people voting Republican, and ignoring the un-Christian treatment of the needy that tax cuts necessitate.
This energizes the womans movement, by putting a womans issue front and center in this election cycle. This also elevates the importance of the pro-choice issue, and let's face it, tax cuts are a non-starter, the money is gone.
On the negative side, this may energize the pro-life forces for the GOP, except that the front running GOP candidates are either pro-choice or were recently.