'Elected politicians who nominated and appointed them, however, better take into account past outcomes and scrutinize future ones, lest they find themselves with no ground – moral or otherwise – on which to stand.'
Republican politicians who take absolute positions on three issues — abortion, gun control and election denial — are turning off voters. This is the third of three opinion pieces, each exploring one issue that has made Republicans vulnerable.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll showed 78% of U.S. residents want abortion decisions left up to a woman and her doctor, while 18% said abortion should be regulated by law. A February Ipsos poll showed that even Republicans were in favor of legal abortions, 49% to 35%. The numbers were similar supporting abortions by the prescription drug Mifepristone.
A November vote in conservative Kentucky to amend the state constitution to ban abortion resulted in a decisive 5-point margin, 52.5% to 47.5%, to turn it away. All politicians — mostly men who would be outraged at any effort to restrict their bodily freedoms — should heed the well-established momentum of an increasing majority favoring a woman’s right to choose and control her body and her life.
The Constitution does not mention abortion, as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. Alito, with smugness that only a person of privilege in a lifetime appointment could conjure, used that in deductively reasoning that abortion is not a right. Alito and like-minded colleagues on the court will not change their thinking on abortion regardless of the outcomes of last year’s, this year’s or future elections or polling.
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