Despite forewarning, GOP lawmakers unprepared to roll out abortion legislation

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14 thoughts on “Despite forewarning, GOP lawmakers unprepared to roll out abortion legislation

    1. Holcomb already said he’d sign whatever the Legislature sent, Bob. “No red lines.” Go find a different windmill to tilt at.

      Now we just wait to see the first leak from the private caucus meetings to find out how many legislators are truly pro-life and how many are just anti-abortion.

      It will also be instructive … if the Legislature even follows the same public comment rules they just mandated school boards follow.

  1. There’s a lot of opinions about this but I hope we can all agree that we *REALLY* should not lean on the guy who argued in favor of Citizens United.

  2. Regardless of your feelings on this matter. It should be noted Marion County has a prosecutor that decides not what cases should be prosecuted but what laws are prosecutable. THIS IS DANGEROUS.

    1. You mean just like the elected Hamilton County Sheriff Quakenbush saying that he is not going enforce the face mask requirement during the declared state emergency?

  3. Not having a detailed plan is no surprise for a party that does not actually seem to have a real platform. Unless you count being against whatever the Democrats are for, and yes, it has to fit into a sound bite that can be shouted at your opponent. Not a lot of room to pack much policy into hot button sound bite.

    1. It’s amazing how many Republican voters moved past the “repeal and replace” lie they’d been sold for a decade …

    1. They’d don’t even mention that Republicans are meeting in private caucus to come up with their bill and your complaint is that the headlines and story aren’t friendly enough?

    2. It’s not about a “friendly headline” Joe, the headline is completely biased, but carry on with your usual Democrat rant.

    3. Political affiliation has zero to do with it. Let’s read the facts in the article again:

      “More than 100 Republicans signed a letter to Holcomb in March requesting a special session in the event the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. A draft of the opinion leaked in May but Republicans didn’t have any legislation drafted in preparation for this moment.”

      Of course, given this is the same Legislature that couldn’t figure out how to get a simple majority to pass a bill ending Eric Holcomb’s pandemic orders, and instead wasted our money on some cockamamie unconstitutional nonsense law that only made sense to Toad Rokita (a sure sign it was a bad idea), maybe I shouldn’t be surprised that they’re unprepared for a moment they’ve been fighting decades for.

  4. Indiana’s over ripe super majority party is rotten at its core . They really don’t have any concerns or any interest in public opinions about anything . They will closed door accept the lobbyist written legislation pronounce it to be law and impose it over any and all objectors.

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