The anti-abortion victories in America's reddest states are having predictably awful results. If this trend continues - and why wouldn't it - then women in America's reddest and poorest states are going to start dying in childbirth, as are their kids. This was entirely predictable. Abortions are health care in many if not most cases. If OBGYNs face legal punishment for practicing medicine, they will simply move. Unlike other jobs, being a doctor likely provides you with decent mobility.
We saw extreme GOP governance recently lead to some actual electoral backlash in places like Kansas and Louisiana, and the potential purpling of states like Georgia and (hopefully) North Carolina. However, much of this backlash is muted by the gerrymandering of state legislatures. The thing about gerrymanders, though, is that they are vulnerable to massive wave elections.
If we start to get a body count of women and newborns as the fallout from Dobbs, then maybe, just maybe, we can force some of these states back into the 20th century (I have no illusions about the 21st).
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