Nikki Haley, like many politicians, wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, she has made it clear that she personally opposes abortion and will sign basically any federal prohibition that ends up on her desk after she is elected president. On the other hand, she wants pro-choice women to know she feels their pain, and she has opined that federal legislation is impossible, due to the filibuster. Something for everyone, it seems.
But she hasn’t been asked the real questions, which are as follows:
- If you are elected president, how vigorously, if at all, will you support attempts by the reactionary right to repeal the filibuster?
- If the filibuster problem can be overcome, how do you propose to enforce anti-abortion legislation in blue states in which the population strongly supports abortion rights? In other words, how will you avoid turning the new legislation into the 21st century equivalent of Prohibition or the Fugitive Slave Act?
I would love to hear the answers to those questions, but I doubt I ever will.