JD Crowe: GOP owns this IVF minefield: Theocracy is a dangerous playground
This is an opinion cartoon.
GOP IVFJD Crowe
This is an opinion cartoon.
Republicans are tiptoeing through an IVF minefield of their own making. Theocracy is a dangerous playground. And Alabama, once again, is in the national headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Tomorrow – Tuesday March 5 – is a primary election day. Vote for the frozen embryo of your choice in all of the GOP Alabama Supreme Court justice races. Hell, vote #frozenembryo in all races if you’re not feeling the love for any of the other goobers.
Let’s stock the Alabama Supreme Court with much, much younger “people.”
From my colleague John Sharp’s AL.com report:
“Could the Republican Party be fraying over the issue of abortion and reproductive rights following the Alabama State Supreme Court’s ruling upending in vitro fertilization within the state?
“It’s a question some believe is valid amid polling over the past two years that illustrates the toxicity of an issue fast becoming the GOP’s biggest political liability in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s undoing of Roe v. Wade, which long enshrined national abortion rights.
“The concerns for Republicans are two-fold:
- Tensions between anti-abortion activists and swing-state Republicans vying for independent voters and support from suburban women during the November elections.
- Overall struggles within the GOP to craft better messaging around abortion policy, which the Democratic Party has seized as an advantage in the aftermath of the Feb. 16 ruling on IVF by the Alabama State Supreme Court.
Related: ‘Very dangerous issue for them’: How Republicans regroup after Alabama court’s IVF ruling – al.com
Related: Will states follow Alabama in ending IVF access? – al.com
“Democrats, in the IVF ruling aftermath, have strategically tied it to Republican abortion politics under the Trump Administration. They say the placement of three conservatives on the Supreme Court led to the eventual unraveling of abortion access nationwide, and now is affecting fertility treatments.
“They started with abortion bans and now they’ve moved on to IVF, essentially ending IVF in Alabama,” said Kylie Murdock, policy advisor with Third Way, a left-leaning national think tank. “The next step likely is banning birth control, which the plurality of American women use.”
Read all of Sharp’s story here.
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix. Give him a holler @[email protected].
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