Nikki Haley is right about a federal abortion ban

Published May 15, 2023 2:30pm ET



For the half-century that Roe v. Wade reigned supreme, pro-life politicians could make a killing by campaigning on fantasies of abolishing the nearly 1 million abortions performed in the country per year while doing absolutely nothing in practice. Now that the movement got what it sorely wished for, in the form of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place: What they spent 50 years promising versus what they can actually get done without decimating the party for a generation in the polls.

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