John Bel Edwards follows through on his pledge to sign a new abortion ban into Louisiana law, he’ll be just the latest executive from a deep red state to endorse such strict antiabortion legislation this year. But if you ask them, they’ll say it’s the Democratic Party that has left them behind, not the other way around. “The Democratic Party would be smart to look at him and say, ‘hey maybe these pro-life Democrats aren’t so bad,’” Day said. In 2006, a Democratic state senator sponsored a “trigger law” that would automatically ban abortions, except when birth threatens a mother’s life, in the event that Roe is overturned. This year, it was also a Democrat, state Sen. John Milkovich, who sponsored the latest ban.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2019 13:08 UTC