Opinion writer for The New York Times Kara Swisher said Saturday on CNN’s “The Chris Wallace Show” that if the Supreme Court strikes down the abortion pill the Republican Party will “lose everything” in the 2024 election.
Partial transcript as follows:
WALLACE: I want to bring up one other thing, we’ve only got a minute left in this segment, Kara, and that is, as if there weren’t enough, the Supreme Court has decided to jump in and hear the case about mifepristone, which is one of two pills that women take. It turns out that taking the abortion pills accounts for a majority, more than half of all abortions in this country.
SWISHER: That is correct.
WALLACE: So the Supreme Court, sitting there in their black robes, is going to sit there and decide whether or not the FDA was right when it extended several years ago, it opened up more access to this drug. Should judges be second-guessing the FDA about whether or not it’s safe to take a drug?
SWISHER: This is going to be explosive depending on decision. If they ban it, I think the GOP is going to lose everything, because I think people, there’s no — there is the most important access to abortion for many women. And I think it is just one of these issues where people are — there’s going to be exception after exception after exception, there’s going to be Kate Cox, and Kate Cox and Kate Cox, and it’s going to be a problem for the GOP.
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