‘They May Be Republicans, But They Still Come in for Services’ - POLITICO

Thus it's freedom — not party affiliation — that will be key to getting their support, according to referendum backers I spoke to. "That's what it comes down to for conservatives like me," said Carlos Lacasa, a Cuban American Republican and former South Florida state representative. "Freedom to possess a firearm, even with a high-capacity magazine, or … to choose whether or not to be vaccinated in the case of a pandemic — anybody who values those and countless other freedoms should be concerned" about restricting abortion before viability, he said. Fidel Castro's legacy was to take freedom away from millions, and Lacasa says that as a result he and many other Cuban Americans are "freedom-loving" and on guard against autocrats to this day. 

"When the state says to a woman that you cannot have an abortion after six weeks, what the state is doing is seizing that woman's womb for its own purposes," he said. "That's scary to me."…

 

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