The Texas Abortion Gambit Is Politically Insane | RealClearPolitics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Texas Republicans have lit a political powder keg, with a new law known as Senate Bill 8 effectively banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy and incentivizing anyone across the country to sue any Texan who provides an abortion or helps someone get an abortion.
39% : A national 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 50% of people supported, and 44% opposed, a ban on abortion "once a fetal heartbeat is detected."
39% : Their desire to outlaw abortion by any means necessary is outweighing any rational political calculus.
33% : Abortion is deeply polarizing issue.
33% : Republicans have overreached on abortion before.
30% : Whatever your opinion on abortion, you should be able to discern that, as a political strategy, the Texan gambit is an insanely risky bet for Republicans to take -- at a time when Republicans don't need to take a political risk.

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