Democrats should take advantage of this Republican rampage against birth control. (via MaddowBlog)
Democrats suddenly had a campaign issue: Republicans, voters were told, have a problem with access to birth control.
It would be an exaggeration to say this was a defining issue in the 2012 cycle, but as Democrats sought to paint the GOP as moving too far to the right, it didn’t hurt that voters heard plenty about Republicans trying to undermine contraception access. It was the same year that Barack Obama was re-elected with relative ease; Democrats expanded their U.S. Senate majority; and Democratic candidates actually won the U.S. House popular vote.
In fact, talk about nothing but birth control and how Republicans want to ban it. You can start with Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs which points out that Griswold v. Connecticut — the 1965 case that made it illegal for states to regulate contraception—relied on the same reasoning as Roe and should now be struck down as well.
There are elements of Truax’s larger piece that I disagreed with, but there’s no denying the fact that the vast majority of Americans support contraception access; many of those Americans would not take kindly to Republican efforts to limit contraception access; and this is a topic many GOP officeholders and candidates would prefer to avoid in the 2022 cycle.
If Democrats were interested in making this a key part of their pitch in this year’s midterm elections, they would not lack for rhetorical ammunition., a 1965 case that struck down a state law that restricted married couples’ access to birth control.
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