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CONTRACEPTION IS A WINNING ISSUE, CONSERVATIVE STRATEGISTS TELL GOP

Former Trump confidante Kellyanne Conway and other strategists are citing poll
data showing strong demand among GOP voters for birth control after the fall of
Roe.



Kellyanne Conway, former counselor to former President Trump, looks on in the
Spin Room during the first Republican Presidential primary debate at the Fiserv
Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., on Aug. 23, 2023. | Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty
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By Alice Miranda Ollstein

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Kellyanne Conway is going to Capitol Hill on Wednesday with a message for
Republicans: promote contraception or risk defeat in 2024.

The former senior counselor and campaign manager for President Donald Trump is
part of a group set to brief Republicans on how they might get ahead of
Democrats’ attacks that the GOP is anti-woman by talking more about protecting
contraception and less about banning abortion.



The visit comes as GOP presidential and congressional candidates have struggled
to craft a salient message on the fallout from the Supreme Court overturning Roe
v. Wade.



Trump himself has blamed anti-abortion groups and the strict laws they support
for electoral defeats in 2022 and 2023. And several prominent conservatives have
implored Republicans in the post-Roe era to focus on issues such as
contraception and maternal care to improve perception of the GOP’s approach to
women’s health as Democrats have wielded the issue to notch several election
wins.

Conway, lobbyist Susan Hirschmann and Independent Women’s Voice CEO Heather
Higgins hope to back up these calls with fresh polling data. On Wednesday, they
plan to meet with GOP members and staff in the House and Senate, as well as the
Republican campaign arms fighting to hold the House and flip the Senate, to warn
that if they don’t talk about birth control and work to make it more accessible,
they risk losing voters and confirming arguments from the left that the party
that outlawed abortion in much of the country is coming next for contraception.

Meaningful action on contraception, they argue, could help Republicans with
their own base and with Democrats dissatisfied with President Joe Biden.

“You’ve got a fair number of Democrats saying that they want an alternative to
Biden and Harris, or they may sit it out,” Conway said in an interview. “He’s
especially bleeding young voters, who you would think would be animated and
interested to hear about [contraception], and who are in the prime of their
years and choosing to conceive or not to conceive.”

The group will share polling commissioned by Independent Women’s Voice and
conducted by KA Consulting, Conway’s firm, that shows overwhelming public
support — including from Republicans and people who identify as “pro-life” — for
policies that make contraception cheaper and more available, including
implantable long-acting versions like IUDs that some conservatives view as akin
to abortion.

The message, they plan to stress, is that Republicans need to talk more about
what they are for and less about what they oppose.

“Republicans are like your uncle, who really loves you and loves the women in
his family, but he’s bad about showing it,” Higgins said in an interview. “It’s
just not in their natural vocabulary. And we’re trying to help them learn how to
make this be more part of their vocabulary and tell them that they need to talk
about these things that their constituents all support, and be more visible and
vocal.”

None of the group briefing members on the poll are working for any presidential
campaign. Conway, a Fox News contributor, remains friendly and in contact with
Trump but has no formal role in his White House bid, according to a person close
to both her and the campaign.




The longtime GOP pollster told POLITICO that while it’s no shock that
contraception is popular, particularly as states move to outlaw most abortions,
she was struck by some of the poll results, including how many conservatives
believe Congress should ensure access to contraception regardless of cost.

“I’ve been doing this for over three decades and I’m very surprised that over 8
in 10 independents and over 8 in 10 pro-lifers would agree with that,” she said.
“Because some people say: ‘You may have a right to contraception but why am I
paying for it?’ That’s the classic libertarian argument.”

Conway plans to tell Capitol Hill Republicans that they “will lose precious
political currency and votes” if they do nothing or take steps to put
contraception further out of reach — pointing to the poll’s finding that nearly
half of conservative women “would consider voting for a candidate from a
different political party” if Republicans back birth control restrictions.

But progressives preparing for battles in 2024 to hold the Senate and White
House are skeptical Republicans can cast themselves as champions of birth
control heading into 2024.

“It won’t work,” said Sara Spain, the spokesperson for the group EMILYS List,
which funds and coaches candidates who support reproductive rights. “Actions
speak louder than words and voters know which lawmakers stand with the majority
of Americans and which don’t. So efforts like this attempted rebrand won’t do
much, because we’ve all seen their record and we’ve seen they are willing to ban
abortion and contraception.”

Organizations like EMILYS List plan to keep that record firmly on voters’ radar
going into next year.

For example, House Republicans’ spending bills, set to come up for a vote early
next year, would eliminate funding for the Title X family planning program and
the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program — both of which provide contraception to
millions of people who might not otherwise be able to afford it. And last
summer, Senate Republicans blocked the House-passed Right to Contraception Act,
which would have enshrined the right to contraception into federal law.

Democrats have also highlighted Justice Clarence Thomas’ call for the high court
to “reconsider” the decades-old federal precedent guaranteeing the right to
contraception. And conservative groups aligned with the GOP, including Turning
Point USA, have urged women to stop taking birth control pills, claiming they
“are actually abortifacients.”

Higgins hopes the survey convinces Republican members of Congress that these
efforts do not reflect their constituents’ views and play right into Democrats’
hands.

“If any conservatives believe that this is what the pro-life world actually
wants, it might help break through to them and explain to them that even among
the most pro-life conservatives, you find this strong support for safe, modern,
effective, accessible contraception ... available for everyone,” she said.

The online poll was conducted Oct. 21–27 and surveyed 1,000 registered, likely
voters with an oversample of women (660 total), registered likely voters and a
margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Meridith McGraw contributed to this report.


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