Panel: 2022 midterm was ‘more of an abortion election than we realize’



Eugene Scott, Amy Walter, Maria Teresa Kumar and Brendan Buck join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the politics of abortion heading into the 2024 GOP primary.

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30 comments

  1. Don't Murder Your Children.

  2. We are on the figurative eve of world war 3, inflation is out of control, Democrats have spent trillions of dollars, and we talking about abortion? This house of cards is going to catch up with these idiots.

  3. 11:59 Maria Teresa Kumar shuts the entire conversation…DOWN!♥

  4. Who is voting for these derpy Republicans?

  5. No one should decide what is best for the mom except the Dr and herself. I wish men would butt out of it.

  6. ANTI-CHOICE does NOT mean "pro-life"!!!!
    When you use the language of the fascists…you EMPOWER and ENCOURAGE them and their oppressive agenda! When you use their preferred languaging, you are actually SELLING US OUT!
    STOP IT! They are ANTI-CHOICE!!!!!!

  7. Mentioning Republicans should result in FCC fines. After what they've put us through? Gads.

  8. "Reasonable, middle-ground restrictions" is exactly a description of Roe: you know, what the Repub's have hated for 50 years!

  9. Abortion is every woman's choice across the majority of the world.

    Republicans are like Taliban men dictating what subjugated women should do. Land of freedom?

    The US constitution has been amended 27 times and is the reason they are called amendments.

  10. Bodily control by the state is fascism.

  11. Stupidity. A propagandized controversy from both major political parties that intentionally misrepresents the key issue in Roe v. Wade which was the right to an elective abortion, an abortion without medical necessity. The difference between elective abortions performed by standalone abortion clinics and medical emergencies treated by medical doctors and hospitals.

    In Roe v Wade, plaintiff Jane Roe had been unable to obtain an abortion due to her inability to meet the medical emergency requirements that Texas had.

  12. Who would have thought that murdering millions of innocent lives is a big deal.

    If anything, we as humans don't make it a big enough deal as we should, mostly because we have bought into the humanistic deception we were all sold in our schools.

  13. The media lied once again about the midterm elections

  14. Speak for yourself. Most women and young men knew exactly what they were voting for last year.

  15. With obscene abortion bans put in place in so many places, we can all see the utter cruelty of denying medical care to those who need it. So as long as people reject cruelty, they will reject abortion bans.

  16. There’s no evidence of State’s Rights, only white men legislators’ imposing their religious beliefs upon the secular public. State’s Rights were evident only in Kansas, where the state offered up a ballot initiative. Once the GQP got a look at public opinion, they backed away from any semblance of public opinion let alone women’s right to choose when or if they want to devote their entire lives and income potential to parenthood? Thanks to austerity measures, women’s maternal mortality rates have actually increased from 16-30%, along racial lines worse outcomes are baked in.
    So forced birth, forced dependency, and women, you’re far more likely to die of complications than any time in 50 friggin years.

  17. The "pro-life", anti-abortion movement was the one thing above all else that propelled the republican party into power over the last 50 years by mobilizing the religious right and realigned them with the republican party. Now that they finally got what they wanted, they can't celebrate it or brag about it to the public at large And it could end up neutralizing it as a political force and take away the one base of support that has kept republicans in power. How ironic.

  18. The country mostly wants three months, the states can decide now, this is a non issue. It’ll never be banned in blue states.

  19. I saw an interesting question by a Federal Judge regarding the Ultra-Conservative Supreme Court and them throwing out Roe v Wade. SHE said that they didn't consider the complete Constitution. The latest that Red States are slamming through that Human Life begins at fertilization? If banning a woman the right to an abortion ISN'T involuntary servitude, that's a violation of the 13th Amendment, what is it?

  20. Republican Party is greatest threat to humanity

  21. Fact check: it is NOT nor has it EVER BEEN the "Democratic position" to allow abortion on demand up to the moment of birth. Nobody is suggesting that full-term babies be slaughtered on the woman's whim, AND THAT IS NOT WHAT WAS HAPPENING prior to Dobbs. Roe had restrictions. We have to recognize that the only abortions that were being done in the timeframe that makes people uncomfortable -be it 15 or 18 or 20 weeks- are tragedies. They are wanted children that are diagnosed with unsurvivable genetic defects, for example. How cruel is it to remove medical care in those circumstances? This is why the default Democratic position is simply to allow these medical decisions to be made by patients and doctors, and to get the politicians out of the mix. Characterizing that as abortion on demand with no limits, contributing to the misinformation about what democrats want, is careless. You should know better.

  22. Honestly, I'm glad the majority of Americans don't want to be put under control if someone puts a bun in the oven, whether it was consental or not.

    But the same people who are pro-life republicans, are the same people who don't want to give children free lunch at schools, or they don't want to help support children or mothers in need. Because they say, "It's not their responsibility." It's not my responsibility to keep something you careless about after it comes out.

  23. If men had to deal with pregnancy there is NO WAY we would let the government dictate this decision. AND there would be a clinic on every corner.
    Everyone knows this is true.

  24. Being biologically human is morally significant. To say otherwise is to reject any notion of human equality and dignity of human life.

  25. SICK! SATANIC CULT MURDERS FOR PROSTITUTES

  26. Please stop the abortion pill so we cab sweep these Republican abominations REAL abortions. off the map.

  27. Didnt properly count the younger generations and the facts they will vote from now on. Extremely bad news for the GOP.