Liz Cheney Makes Pro-Choice Arguments

How did that happen?

Yesterday the Guardian ran a headline that stated “Liz Cheney urges conservatives to back Kamala Harris over abortion.” Since Liz Cheney, like most conservative Republicans, is a forced birth ghoul, I assumed that the story was about Cheney telling Republicans to vote for Harris despite her pro-choice views.

But that is not what Cheney was doing. She was instead telling Republicans to vote for Harris because of her pro-choice stance on abortion.

“I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what’s going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need,” said Cheney, 58, a former Wyoming congresswoman and daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney.

“I think this is not an issue that we’re seeing break down across party lines, but I think we’re seeing people come together to say: what has happened to women, when women are facing situations where they can’t get the care they need, where in places like Texas, for example, the attorney general is talking about suing, is suing, to get access to women’s medical records … that’s not sustainable for us as a country and it has to change.”

This is a stunning reversal for Cheney. But it’s also in a lot of ways predictable. And it is a strong indication that when progressives suggested Cheney’s endorsement of Harris would pull Harris to the right, they had it exactly backwards.

So, what happened? Why is Cheney suddenly talking like a pro-choice Democrat? Was she a hypocrite before? Is she a hypocrite now? Or what?

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