Republicans were wrong on abortion and Democrats are using that to rally women voters

Republicans have spent the past months proving a point I've been trying to make: Repealing Roe was never about federalism and state's rights. It has always been, and always will be, about taking away women's bodily autonomy.

I am not surprised that it didn't take long for anti-abortion extremists to show their true colors and push for even more restrictions on abortion rights, as well as some outrageous proposals for "solutions" to an inevitable wave of unwanted pregnancies because of Roe being overturned. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham is one of the more prominent Republicans who seems to have missed the "it's about federalism, we're pro-states" nonsense the GOP was pushing when they got rid of the constitutional right to an abortion this summer. As an unmarried, childless male, the South Carolina senator decided to push for a federal 15-week abortion ban and further erode the rights of women in states where they still have agency over their bodies, states like Colorado (where a woman's fundamental right to abortion was reaffirmed statutorily post-Dobbs), and California (where access to abortion was expanded after Roe fell).