WASHINGTON — After decades of fighting against the Roe v. Wade decision, conservatives scored a pair of major victories this month when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a restrictive abortion law in Texas to take effect and set a date to hear arguments about another in Mississippi later this year.
But Republicans aren’t so sure the issue of abortion will be a political winner heading into the 2022 midterm elections.
While it has primarily energized a key slice of the GOP base ever since the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion, some Republican operatives say the usual political dynamic could shift now that activists on both sides see the potential for the conservative-controlled Supreme Court to scale back or overturn Roe v. Wade in the middle of an election year.
