The GOP’s Abortion Flop

A Wisconsin Supreme Court drubbing is the latest indication of the need to find the sensible middle.

Wonder Land: Joe Biden and Donald Trump ignore a mother’s wisdom to the detriment of the country. Fortunately some politicians recognize what needs to change. Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly

The U.S. Senate. A half-dozen governors’ mansions. Four state legislative chambers. And now, control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. At some point, the GOP might want to acknowledge its glaring abortion problem—and do something about it.

Conservatives cheered mightily last year when the Supreme Court returned abortion to the states with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. And rightly so. Yet that was a legal victory. The political question is something else entirely, and it’s the left cheering now. In race after race, state after state, Democrats are pummeling conservative candidates on abortion, drowning out every other topic, stoking fearful centrists, suburbanites and women to turn out and elect them to office.

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