It's amazing to me that the 'head in the sand' approach the republicans took regarding Dobbs, and now they seem caught off guard by Women's health care being a prominent issue. It's so weird.

I think they know they're in a quandary and just really don't know how to get out of it. If they step back in the slightest way from the position the Christian right wants them to take, they're highly pressured by that contingent to make a reversal. But they also know that this position is political suicide. Having sold their soul to the evangelical (and right-wing Catholic) base, they have to dance to the tune of that base — while they want to win elections. So they lie as strategy….