Marjorie Taylor Greene praises anti-abortion protesters as Republican Party tries to win back women

A September report from The 19th suggests that many Georgians are thinking about abortion as they prepare to vote, and Trump and Vance have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to woo female voters. Part of that effort involved Vance obscuring his previous anti-abortion positions and Trump downplaying his role in shaping the Supreme Court, which opened the door to abortion bans now in effect in states across the country.

With that in mind, Greene told Georgians:

It's not exactly clear what anti-abortion activist Greene was referring to. In the past, she has been repeatedly accused of lying about an anti-abortion activist who invaded and blocked an abortion clinic in 2020. Activist Lauren Handy was found to have illegally taken fetuses from a clinic to keep at her home. In May, she was sentenced to five years in prison. In another case in July, four anti-abortion activists in Tennessee received different sentences for their roles in blocking an abortion clinic in 2021.

But Greene's final message to Georgia voters – and women in particular – was that motherhood is “the greatest blessing God has given to women,” that abortion is always and only “murder,” and that vigilantes are taking it upon themselves to Stopping women from exercising their reproductive freedom are “the bravest in the land.” That certainly doesn't seem like the kind of centrist message that could assuage voters' concerns about the MAGA movement's arch-conservative political goals.

While the GOP campaign appears to have focused on two goals — softening its image among women and appearing less extreme on abortion — Greene's extremism undermines both of those goals. I hope Georgia voters listened.