Although there was a leak of the draft opinion in early May 2022, Tuesday marks the third anniversary of when the Dobbs v. Jackson abortion decision was formally handed down. As a result, the people can decide their own abortion laws more directly through their elected representatives. Many bright blue states have legalized abortion up until birth for any reason, though some red states have as well thanks to purposefully misleading ballot initiatives. Other red states, however, have resisted those initiatives, as Florida did last November, and have gone through their state legislatures to restrict abortion. Just as the second Trump administration has emphasized since the 2024 campaign, abortion is now mostly regarded once more as an issue for states to decide. Yet the pro-abortion Democrats are still fearmongering, even as abortion is no longer such a major issue for their base.
For the 2022 midterms that took place just months after the Dobbs decision, there was a red wave that was supposed to materialize but never came to be, except in Florida. Both the pro-abortion and pro-life sides spoke to this, and abortion may or may not have played a major role. Recent polling from Cygnal earlier this month shows that abortion just isn't a major issue for voters, including for Democrats.
In his daily takes for Tuesday, Brent Buchanan, the president of Cygnal, highlighted how "Dems cry wolf (again)," going on to mention that "Before the 2022 midterms, Democrats listed abortion at 21% the top issue. As of this month, that's at 3%, tied with crime and public safety. Climate change scores 2x higher among Dems at 7%. Among Independents, abortion is at 1%. It's a 'boy who cried wolf' issue now.
Those numbers come from the June National Voter Trends (NVT) survey, which was conducted June 3-5 and polled 1,500 likely general election voters with a margin of error at plus or minus 2.51 percentage points. Of 11 issues, abortion comes in dead last in order of importance, with just 1.7 percent saying it's their top priority. Voters were also given a chance to say "unsure," which 1.6 percent selected. Just 2 percent of Democrats and those who voted for then Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 said it was their top priority.
"Abortion is at its lowest point in our tracking at 1.7% from its high in October 2022 of 13%, the poll noted in its "Insights & Analysis" section.
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The DNC, in severe disarray for all sorts of reasons, didn't seem to get that memo, though. Their X account is full of posts and reposts about the abortion decision. This isn't exactly surprising, given that for the anniversary last year, they did the same thing. Then President Joe Biden and Harris also posted dozens of times throughout the day, as we covered for that anniversary.
Today marks three years since Trump’s handpicked justices overturned Roe v. Wade.
— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) June 24, 2025
Since then, 21 states have enacted abortion bans, and maternal and infant mortality are on the rise.
Donald Trump did this, and he’s not done yet. His budget proposal would defund health clinics…
There will also be a press call at 1:45pm on Tuesday, which includes Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde. This is despite how Ohio in 2023 was one of those red states which approved a ballot initiative legalizing abortion up until birth for any reason, including on minors, thus usurping parental rights. The press invite claimed that President Donald Trump "is pushing a backdoor abortion ban" as part of their fearmongering language similar to their post shared to X above earlier on Thursday.
Buchanan also linked to reporting from The Wall Street Journal about Rep. Kat Cammack's (R-FL) pregnancy and concerns last year with treating an ectopic pregnancy. "Republican’s Life-Threatening Pregnancy Collided With Florida’s Abortion Politics," read the hysterical headline. "Due in August with her first child, Rep. Kat Cammack says doctors last year hesitated to treat her ectopic pregnancy," the subheadline added. Many reacted over X by going after Cammack and for how she blamed the left.
As the piece began [emphasis added]:
Rep. Kat Cammack arrived at the emergency room in May 2024 terrified by what she had just learned: Her pregnancy could kill her at any moment.
It would only get worse. The Florida Republican needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her ectopic pregnancy, in which there is no way for the embryo to survive. Her state’s six-week abortion ban had just taken effect. She said doctors and nurses who saw her said they were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail if they gave her drugs to end her pregnancy.
She began arguing her case. The staff resisted, she said, even though doctors earlier that day estimated she was just five weeks pregnant. There was no heartbeat, and her life was at risk. She pulled up the state law on her phone for hospital workers to read. She said she called the governor’s office late at night for help, but no one picked up.
Hours later, doctors finally agreed to give her the methotrexate, Cammack said.
The Florida ban, which took effect May 1, 2024, made abortions illegal after six weeks with limited exceptions. It didn’t ban procedures for ectopic pregnancies, but concern about the law’s wording made doctors hesitant, said patients and physicians. Months later, Florida regulators gave guidance to address what they called misinformation, making clear that doctors should intervene in cases such as Cammack’s.
Pregnant again and due this summer, Cammack said the politics of the incident linger with her. While Cammack opposes abortion and co-chairs the House Pro-Life Caucus, she supports exceptions for reported cases of rape and incest in the first trimester and in instances in which the mother’s life is at risk.
Not only does the piece acknowledge that the pro-life Florida law doesn't ban treating an ectopic pregnancy, which does not involve an abortion, it also mentions how Cammack favors exceptions that protect the mother's life, which all states do.
The write-up also contains a section on "Who is to blame?" Cammack makes her case well in the section, though it also goes on to gin up more of the "absolute fearmongering" that Cammack warns against: [emphasis added]:
Cammack doesn’t fault the Florida law for her experience. Instead, she accuses the left of scaring medical professionals with messaging that stressed that they could face criminal charges for violating the law. She said she feels those efforts gave medical staff reason to fear giving drugs even under legal circumstances.
“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst,” she said. She also knows that abortion-rights advocates might see the opposite—that the Republican-led restriction caused the confusion. “There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion,” she said. Cammack declined to name the hospital where she received care.
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[Cammack] said the difficult political environment is to blame for preventing discussions on how to improve women’s healthcare.
“We have turned the conversation about women’s healthcare into two camps: pink hats and pink ribbons,” she said. “It’s either breast cancer or abortion.”
What confusion there is over treating ectopic pregnancies, though, does come from the pro-abortion left. Treating an ectopic pregnancy, involves a nonviable pregnancy developing somewhere other than the uterus and can be life-threatening to the mother, is not considered an abortion. Even Planned Parenthood, which performs more abortions than any entity in the country, admitted this until a few years ago.
The fearmongering over ectopic pregnancies is a classic move from the pro-abortion left. In uly 2022, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) even justified pro-abortion protesters looking to harass Justice Brett Kavanaugh at a restaurant in Washington, DC, with such claims about ectopic pregnancies.
Just days ago, Live Action News documented that Planned Parenthood’s website stated, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion."
— Live Action News (@LiveActionNews) July 21, 2022
Now, Planned Parenthood seems to have scrubbed the verbiage entirely. pic.twitter.com/IEmhEIDO5q
Poor guy. He left before his soufflé because he decided half the country should risk death if they have an ectopic pregnancy within the wrong state lines. It’s all very unfair to him.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 8, 2022
The least they could do is let him eat cake 🍰 https://t.co/5Y3b1TIW1N
