I wonder about unintended consequences:
Left-leaning New York groups pledged $20 million Thursday to support a change to the New York State constitution to protect abortion rights that will be on the 2024 ballot — something they believe will boost turnout for Democrats in key swing House districts.
A state Equal Rights Amendment will ask voters next November to codify a number of rights, including abortion and LGBTQ rights, in the state constitution. New York Democrats are hoping to replicate a model they found successful last cycle, when a constitutional abortion amendment was on the same ballot as vulnerable Democrats in Michigan. The amendment passed and those members held their seats. [Politico]
If this were to succeed, resulting in abortion rights being in the New York Constitution, are the Democrats throwing away a useful tool for spurring independents to vote Democratic? The fallout of the Dobbs decision is among the most potent weapons in the Democrats arsenal, particularly as the Republicans have given up on the central tenet of liberal democracies – persuasion.
One might argue the same is true of Democrats on other topics, of course.
