Even a plurality of Republicans oppose Republican-led national abortion ban efforts.
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans oppose a nationwide abortion ban, including pluralities of independents and Republicans, according to a new Navigator study.
Thomas’ illegitimate court forced many Americans to realize that they were, in fact, pro-choice: “Net opposition has increased 6 points since late June (from net -35 to net -41).”
“Majorities of Democrats (81%) and Independents (60%) describe themselves as pro-choice and disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade (78% and 56%, respectively).”
Women voters are unimpressed with Republican attacks on their basic health rights. “Women trust Biden and Democrats more to protect abortion rights by 37 points and to fight abortion bans by 44 points; independents are also more confident in Biden and Democrats to protect abortion rights by 25 points and fight bans by 36 points.
To overcome women’s concerns about their physical safety, Republicans attempt to hammer home “school choice” and “parental rights” (i.e. false objections to critical race theory, which isn’t usually even taught in schools but should be, and uses trans rights for alarmist suburban moms).
The problem with the Republican approach is that many suburban mothers have daughters, and many have justified fears that their daughter may not get life-saving care or an abortion if she is raped.
The study found those most concerned about ‘forcing women to carry stillborn babies for a full nine months and the lack of exceptions to protect the health of the mother’.
It’s hard to sell “pro-life” when people read stories about women’s health being destroyed by “pro-life” policies. It is also heartbreaking to read the stories of life-threatening complications pregnant women endure after Roe, a concern that was also cited in the poll:
“The most concerning realities of a post-Roe America focus on the physical dangers and hardships pregnant American women have had to endure in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe.”
A majority of people do not believe that the government should be able to impose personal medical decisions on citizens and also believe that there should always be exceptions for rape, incest, life and health of the mother. If you are not in a cult and have a reasonable capacity for critical thinking, you realize that with these exceptions, the whole premise of “pro-life” ideology fails.
The problem with pro-life ideology is that it is based on a faulty premise that cells should have more rights than the human being who carries them. This is a legal precedent that clearly sets the stage for a widespread violation of civil rights and encompasses the suppression of the human rights of people who might become pregnant. This is at its heart the essence of anti-freedom.
What many didn’t realize until Roe was overthrown is that abortion is care. It is a human right. It is necessary. Nobody likes abortion, just like nobody likes having heart surgery. But sometimes it is necessary, and in a free country, everyone should have access to good care.
In the post-Roe landscape, women who are denied proper medical care have also had their possible future pregnancies compromised. For people who are longing to give birth, it is a horrible loss.
There is nothing in the post-Roe landscape that seems “pro-life.” The Supreme Court accidentally revealed the horrible reality of life without an abortion when it overturned Roe.
Conservatives have long struggled with the fundamental tenet of their belief system, which is that it is not meant to respond to the public, but rather to dictate. When this becomes apparent, they find new ways to appeal to voters, such as marrying their cause to a radicalized and now unrecognizable form of corporate Christianity. After all, Ezekiel 37:5-6 states that life begins with the first breath.
Remember when conservatives to claim that the ten-year-old denied an abortion in Ohio after being raped was a lie? Turned out it was true, then they said it was “rare” but now, at least two other minors who were raped have been denied abortions in Ohio. Affidavits filed in Cincinnati “also describe more than two dozen other instances in which the abortion law subjected women to extreme coercion.”
In effect, 34% of victims of sexual assault and rape are under 12 years old. Children cannot safely carry a pregnancy to term, and the United Nations considers denying a child necessary abortion care a violation of human rights.
To deal with this tidal wave of disapproval against a national abortion ban proposed by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in the run-up to the midterm elections, the Republican Minority Leader in Senate Mitch McConnell tried to dodge the bullet by saying he thought it was a matter of state rights.
But we already see it in action as a matter of state rights, and that is not acceptable.
Americans faced with the brutal realities of life without abortion are struggling to cling to the once quite popular but vague notion that it was moral to be “pro-life.” In reality, denying abortion is immoral and even a plurality of Republicans can see that.
Whether Roe will have an impact on expectations and turnout in the midterm elections remains to be seen, but it has already had a huge impact on voter registrations. A functioning democratic government should listen to the people – and while the people may not always be aware, they certainly know there is a dangerously egregious abuse of power when they witness it. .
Ms. Jones is co-founder/editor of PoliticusUSA and a member of the White House press pool.
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