Anti-abortion activists may have rebranded their agenda, but their goal remains the same

Anti-abortion activists may have rebranded their agenda, but their goal remains the same

Paula Thornton Greear
November 2, 2024 6:14 am


When the U.S. Supreme Court destroyed Roe v. Wade and ended federal protection for abortion care, they threw our nation into a reproductive health care crisis. They galvanized Michiganders and people across the country to fight back by passing ballot initiatives to protect our reproductive freedoms.

We’ve shown anti-abortion groups and politicians just how deeply unpopular their positions are — but after initially knocking them off their feet, they’ve regrouped. Many are pretending they’ve even turned a new leaf — but we know they’re using the same old playbook.

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How is the anti-abortion faction shifting its language? First, they tried to trumpet their support for a “national abortion ban,” which they initially defined as a complete ban on all abortion care with no exceptions. But they quickly realized that the American public is overwhelmingly against them. In fact, only 8 percent of Michiganders support a ban with zero exceptions, according to the Michigan-based polling research group EPIC-MRA. So anti-abortion groups and politicians had to find a new phrase to hide behind. They are now rebranding abortion bans, insisting they are simply “minimum national standards.”

But we can’t be fooled. A “minimum national standard” banning abortion after 8 or 12 or 15 weeks gestation — or any other timeline arbitrarily chosen by politicians — is still a nationwide ban, plain and simple. ................(more)

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