The House GOP’s election of Rep. Mike Johnson (La.) as Speaker is likely to give an opening to social conservatives, who plan to press him on bringing anti-abortion and anti-transgender polic…
The House GOP’s election of Rep. Mike Johnson (La.) as Speaker is likely to give an opening to social conservatives, who plan to press him on bringing anti-abortion and anti-transgender polic…
Completely different thing. Conservatives have been biding their time for decades until the Supreme Court was favorable enough to overturn it. Whereas currently the Republicans do not have a filibuster-proof majority (or any majority) in the Senate.
Yes, at some point in the future conservatives will have a Senate majority again, but by that point the House of Representatives will have had a turnover and the discussions now are moot depending on who the next speaker is.
What we can say about overturning Roe is that it shows the dangers in relying on Supreme Court rulings in lieu of legislation. The Democrats have had multiple opportunities to pass legislation on abortion ever since Roe vs. Wade and never bothered to, and this is the result. And it will happen again with Obergefell v. Hodges unless they get off their asses and actually codify same sex marriage into law.