Yeah the GOP is rapidly in a situation where the dog actually catches the car.
A lot of establishment Republicans have used "Pro-Life" advocacy purely as a stick to motivate evangelicals and keep them in the GOP's pocket. Republicans have kept stoking the issue to help them stack the courts with conservative judges. But in the midst of their zeal, they started to drink the Kool-Aid and they began equating "Pro-Life" with "Banning Abortion" and assumed it was a 50/50 issue nationwide. But it's not. Sure, a near majority of the public may consider themselves "Pro Life" in an informal sense and believe abortions should be a deliberate decision, but a supermajority of the public nationwide believe abortion should be legal and accessible.
This Alabama law is going to expose just how many people are Pro-Life but also believe abortions shouldn't be banned wholesale. This law is a gift for Democrats. It's not just "fear mongering" saying the GOP is trying to ban abortion, we now have a concrete example of a state banning abortion and trying to use it as a vehicle to ban it nationwide. It's why there's been crickets from Republicans in Congress about the Alabama law, none of them want to defend it directly but ironically this is the logical conclusion for what they've been fighting for nearly 40 years. Like I said, when the dog catches the car.
