The 2024 campaign season is officially kicking off this month, and despite polls showing low enthusiasm for President Joe Biden, Republicans know full well they are facing major headwinds this election year. It's not just that their likely presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is probably the most loathed person in the country. There's also the abortion issue. Ever since the Dobbs decision of 2022, when the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, there's been a sustained backlash from the strong majority of Americans who do not want religious prudes in their bedrooms, dictating their most personal decisions.
There can be no doubt that the impetus behind the abortion bans that were swiftly passed in many red states is unvarnished misogyny. That much has been evident in the drip-drip of stories of women denied abortions, even when the fetus has no chance of survival outside of the womb. It exposes the "pro-life" label for the lie it always was. The only purpose of an abortion ban is and always will be to punish women. For being sexual. For having ambitions. Even, in some cases, for simply refusing to die. After all, a corpse is the right's ideal woman: silent and without a will of her own.
