DeSantis’s Midnight Signing of Abortion Bill Shows Just How Thorny the Issue Has Become for the GOP

The policy director for the conservative American Principles Project says the Republican Party needs to come to a clear message on what it wants to do at the federal level.

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Governor DeSantis following his State of the State address during a joint session of the senate and house of representatives, March 7, 2023, at Tallahassee. AP/Phil Sears, file

The Dobbs decision was the capstone to decades of work by opponents of legalized abortion, finally returning the issue back to the states. Yet some presidential hopefuls are now finding themselves boxed into unpopular policy plans that severely restrict access to abortion, while others give non-answers on possible federal actions. 

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