Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said that Texas’ abortion law is too extreme at The Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday. Rove’s comment underscores an increasingly public discomfort with the measure among Republicans. TribFest22
Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that Texas’ abortion law is too extreme, underscoring an increasingly public discomfort with the measure among Republicans.
Rove made the comment during an exchange at a Texas Tribune Festival panel about elections following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. He said had defeated an “extremist measure on abortion,” defining extreme as “essentially no abortion, no exceptions.”“Yeah, I do,” Rove replied. “I think it’s gonna create a real problem for Republicans in the Legislature next year when they have to deal with it.”soon after the Roe decision and banned abortion without exceptions for rape or incest.
Rove is not the only prominent Republican voice to express misgivings with Texas’ abortion ban. The speaker of the Texas House,