lee wrote on Jul 11
th, 2022 at 10:30pm:
John Smith wrote on Jul 9
th, 2022 at 11:07am:
it's a good start, but it doesn't restore womens rights to what they were. It's now up to Americans to vote out republicans across the board at the next election and allow the democrats to pass a law that gives them back those rights
"The majority of Democrats, including Lamont, supported the bill,
but 10 members of the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus, including McGee, voted against the measure. The bill passed by 87-60 in the state House of Representatives and 25-9 in the Senate. State Rep. Laura Devlin of Fairfield, who is running for lieutenant governor on a ticket with gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski, was among
seven Republicans voting in favor of the bill.Overall,
14 House Democrats voted against the abortion bill, joining with the majority of Republicans in opposition. McGee and others said that Black women make up only 14% of the child-bearing population but have 36% of abortions.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/abortion-politics-front-center-west-091900503.htmlIt crosses party lines.
Yes it always crossed party lines.
The original Roe V Wade decision was made by a republican majority of votes in the supreme court and supported by the republican and democrat party as a whole with members of both opposed to it as well.
As a state governor G Bush passes abortion laws. When he became President the Party opinion had changed so he then opposed abortion. Like so many he was happy to sit on both sides of the fence.
Even the religious opinion has changed when Roe V Wade first passed there was little religious opposition, the religious opposition only came after the republicans chose to make it a political issue.
One of the leading religious opponents to abortion only started his crusade about 7 years after Roe v Wade, that is for 6 years he really didn't think it was a problem.