Conservatives waged a 50-year battle to overturn Roe v. Wade, but when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them that long-sought victory in its Dobbs ruling last summer, the dog that caught the car lost its nose for the chase.
In that vacuum, six-of-six pro-life ballot measures failed, and Democrats blunted an anticipated “red wave” in the 2022 mid-terms by convincing enough voters that the Dobbs ruling is a threat to women’s rights instead of a guarantor of a fundamental human right—the right to life.
