It is the result of a
New ABC News/Washington Post polland the findings are consistent with
Prior to poll on this issue. Despite the fact that abortion is politically a contentious partisan issue, the truth is that America is a pro-choice nation. And if the anti-abortion movement succeeds and the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it will be the Republican Party and the Supreme Court that will have plenty of angry Americans to contend with.
Often, American politicians and media outlets speak of abortion as a political issue or a front in the culture war, rather than the basic health care issue faced by women around the world. the world has been searching for.
many centuries. The self-defining pro-life movement and its representatives in the Republican Party have greatly benefited from redefining abortion from routine (albeit stigmatized) medical treatment into an issue. partisan themes: In doing so, they radically change the frame and can even significantly convince the approving public that their position has more support than it actually does. That makes the story around abortion more of a story about “both sides” of a political drama than a fundamental question about access to health care to ensure universal safety. individual dignity and freedom of women.
According to this latest poll, even one
thin majority of Republicans and conservatives, and 75% of Americans in general, believe that abortion should be a private decision between a woman and her doctor. Only one-fifth of Americans, a small minority, want to see a decision on whether to have an abortion under the law. Majority organizations that support abortion rights by race, sex, region, and education; Nearly half of white Protestants, the most conservative voting bloc in the country, say abortion should be performed between a woman and her doctor rather than being regulated by law, and 62 % of Catholics in favor of supporting.
Roe v Wade. Only about a quarter of Americans strongly support state laws that make it more difficult to operate clinics.
The Americans most directly affected by the abortion law – women under 40, still the most likely group to get pregnant – remain some of the strongest advocates of abortion rights: the numbers A whopping 86% say the decision should be up to the woman and her doctor.
This poll does not consider support for access to contraception, but Americans should understand that the right to contraception and family planning is tied to the right to abortion. While access to highly effective and long-acting contraceptives is the most effective way to reduce abortion rates – and in fact
main reason abortion has become less common in the US – many large “pro-life” groups actively oppose most modern forms of contraception, including the IUD and the pill. And
many people support life groups have long worked to
redefine some of the most common forms of contraception –
IUD, NS
birth control pills – as “abortion pills”, despite the fact that these drugs prevent pregnancy and do not end them. Legitimate anti-abortion organizations have
Supreme Court cases supported allows private employers to refuse to authorize employees’ health plans to cover contraception if they have personal religious objections.
This is already clear: Many of the most influential anti-abortion groups are also against contraception, and if they succeed in outlawing abortions, contraception could be next.
There is also a fundamental fact that
Roe decided on the basis of precedent set by a 1965 case,
Griswolds v. Connecticut, in which the Supreme Court
found a constitutional right to sexual privacy adult in the United States and legalized contraception for married couples. From that case arose
Roe and others, including those legalizing consensual sex between adults regardless of gender and establishing the right to same-sex marriage. The main right-wing legal argument against Roe is that the constitutional right to sexual privacy does not exist. If the Supreme Court overturns
Roe on that basis, it’s hard to imagine a universe in which the right to contraception and equal rights in marriage
cannot be similarly challenged.
Nearly a quarter of American women will have an abortion in their lifetime.
according to the Guttmacher Institute.
According to the last numbers available,
nearly two-thirds of American women of childbearing age used some form of contraception and 99% used at least one method of contraception in the past.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe either officially or functionally – by giving states ample time to curtail abortion rights – the Courts and Republicans can see what minority abortionists actually are However, how important abortion and contraception are for American women to be free and how angry women (and those who love them) will get when our rights to our bodies our rights are taken away by five or six conservative judges who are not accountable to the public voting. The GOP faces a guaranteed backlash if the anti-abortion movement gets what it wants, and the Court could face a loss of public confidence.
But here’s also a lesson for journalists and other media people: abortion rights are not widely contested. This is not an argument; it’s about an authoritarian minority that seeks to force the majority to conform to their (mostly religious) views. Americans support abortion rights. Americans understand that abortion is a private medical decision that should be between a woman and her doctor, not the woman and the state. And while too many Americans brazenly support abortion rights, they will not refuse if those rights are taken away.
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