They already know, at this point, that people hate it and it will lose them support in any fair election.

It started out as a simple wedge issue; they wanted to be able to attract a certain type of sanctimonious voter, who didn’t actually agree with the issue as it pertained to their individual family and loved ones. But, they would with vocal reliability vote for it anyway, based on combined blather-value and lack of understanding of pregnancy medical care, and as part of the deal that they were probably unaware of, the politicians they supported would make sure it wouldn’t actually happen and the real world consequences come to their horrible reality.

At this point, though, they know. It’s explicit, probably on some vague level even to the voters, that their type of government can enact horrific cruelties on “its own people,” and cannot be removed even if a clear majority of “its own people” want it to be.

“The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.” -Milton Sanford Mayer