The ruling on abortion rights could turn the campaign into a massive mobilizing effort over the issues of abortion, individual rights and the contrasting philosophies of the two major political parties.
Supporters of abortion rights and their Democratic allies predicted that the thunderclap heard Monday night with Politico’s publication of a leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. would reverberate through to the fall campaign and possibly beyond.
“A strong defense of life is a vote winner,” said Kristi Hamrick, chief media and policy strategist for Students for Life, one of the largest antiabortion groups. “It energizes people.”The dueling assessments about the impact on the November elections come with substantial caveats. For one, the draft opinion does not necessarily represent the current state of the discussions among the nine justices, leaving open the possibility that the court will not go as far as the Alito draft outlines.
As he left for a trip to Alabama on Tuesday morning, Biden said the decision, if it holds, would represent a “radical” shift by the court and a ruling that would put other privacy rights at risk.“If it becomes a law and if what is written is what remains, it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose,” Biden said. “It goes to other basic rights.” Among them, he added, are who you marry and whether you decide to conceive a child.
A Democratic strategist close to the White House, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about possible strategies, said a singular focus on the issue of abortion will not be adequate, however. He condemned Biden and other Democrats for failing to stand up for the independence of the high court.
“I think clearly the country is not where the Democrats are,” said Sen. Rick Scott , who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “The Democrats want late-term abortion; they wouldn’t be able to get on board up until the moment of birth and then not have to keep the child alive. That’s not where the country is. … Public opinion doesn’t believe in late-term abortion. That’s what the Democrats are.
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