Last Call For The Road To Gilead, Con't

Americans are overwhelmingly in support of Roe v Wade as settled legal precedent and access to abortion as a Constitutional right, but that of course doesn't matter in the slightest, only the opinions of nine SCOTUS justices do.

Americans say by a roughly 2-to-1 margin that the Supreme Court should uphold its landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, and by a similar margin the public opposes a Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The lopsided support for maintaining abortion rights protections comes as the court considers cases challenging its long-term precedents, including Dec. 1 arguments over a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The Post-ABC poll finds 27 percent of Americans say the court should overturn Roe, while 60 percent say it should be upheld, attitudes that are consistent in polls dating to 2005. More broadly, three-quarters of Americans say abortion access should be left to women and their doctors, while 20 percent say they should be regulated by law.

While Americans have long supported limiting access to abortion after the first trimester of pregnancy, the poll suggests Americans widely oppose recent efforts in conservative-leaning states to enforce more severe restrictions.

Asked about a Texas law that authorizes private citizens anywhere in the country to sue anyone who performs or aids someone in obtaining an abortion in Texas after about six weeks of pregnancy, the Post-ABC poll finds 65 percent say the court should reject the law, while 29 percent say it should be upheld. The Supreme Court is considering the role federal courts can play in evaluating the Texas law, which was intended to avoid federal court review. A separate question finds 36 percent support state laws that make it more difficult for abortion clinics to operate, while 58 percent oppose such restrictions, including 45 percent who oppose them “strongly.”

 

Americans are overwhelmingly for a lot of things that Republicans in Congress and conservatives in the courts are against, but it sure doesn't seem to matter when it comes to voting the GOP out of office. Republicans keep blocking gun safety legislation, voting rights legislation, civil rights legislation,  women's rights legislation, and LGBTQ+ equality legislation, all popular with a broad spectrum of American voters including Republicans, but they keep electing the people against it.

Then they complain about why the Democrats can't pass anything if they control Congress, and go back to watching Ben Shapiro videos on Facebook, and decide that voting is for suckers anyway because both sides screw the little guy, so why bother?

And down the road to Gilead we go.