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What Next - Abortion Is on the Ballot. Republicans Have a Plan.

What Next - Abortion Is on the Ballot. Republicans Have a Plan.

After losing so many state votes, the GOP is now fighting direct democracy itself.

Slate Daily Feed · Slate

October 24, 202424m 53s

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Show Notes

When put to the voters, abortion rights have been winning over stricter restrictions even in places like deeply red Kansas. But Florida Republicans are working hard to defeat a ballot measure that would roll back the state’s six-week abortion ban—and they might have found a formula to win.


Guest: Grace Panetta, political reporter at The 19th. 


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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