5/21/2019

ABORTION/DEMS/ELECTION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “2020 Democratic presidential candidates are plunging into the debate over restrictive new abortion laws in states like Alabama, Georgia and Missouri — making abortion rights a central part of their messaging as some charge President Donald Trump with waging a ‘war on women.’ Republicans have often sought to seize on the decades-long battle over abortion rights. Judicial appointments and Supreme Court vacancies have energized segments of their evangelical, anti-abortion base in election years. But with the installation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as the fifth conservative justice on the court and efforts by conservative state legislatures to drastically restrict abortion rights, Democrats are taking the opportunity to rally their own voters, particularly women. This was most evident Tuesday as a parade of presidential contenders joined demonstrators on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest Alabama’s decision to pass the most restrictive abortion law in the country last week — a measure that includes no exceptions for rape or incest — as well as the so-called ‘heartbeat bills’ sweeping through statehouses in the South”

Maeve Reston, “2020 Democrats tie abortion fight to Trump as issue takes center stage,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 21, 2019 9:09 am