It ’s been less than six week since the US Supreme Courtoverturned Roe v Wade , and whew , boy . thing are bad .
We ’ve seen10 - year - old victim of rapebeingforced across state linesfor what would in all probability be alife - saving medical procedure . People withdisabilities or chronic conditionshave beendenied retentive - terminal figure medication – when they ’re not even pregnant . sound and aesculapian experts are warn thatmore woman will be criminalizedandput in deathly dangerbecause of a miscarriage , which can affect 10 - 20 percentage of all pregnancies .
There are countless stories ofpregnant peoplehaving theirlives put in dangerfor care of being prosecute foraborting a babythatcould never have survivedin any case , and people withlife - threatening conditionssuch asectopic pregnancies or fond miscarriagesbeing leave to get for day asphysicians strain to balancetheir Hippocratic Oath with the legal philosophy of the land .
And all this for a insurance that isn’teven supported by the majority of citizens .
Anew KFF poll parrot , conducted over the first one-half of July , has found that Americans whodisapproveof the decision to overturn Roe outnumber those who O.K. by a factor of two to one . And after years of proclaiming that miscarriage rights should be a res publica - degree affair , Republicans may yet find themselves hoist by their own petard : most adults survey , include majorities of Democrats , independents , and women between the ages of 18 and 49 , want their state laws to undertake admittance to abortion – even in states where pre - Roe miscarriage bans or induction law have already come into effect .
“ Instead of increasing democratic representation , the Dobbs opinion [ which prompt the overturning of Roe v Wade ] has actually widen the gap between public preferences and public insurance policy , both nationwide and within many states , ” wrote Harvard Kennedy School researchers Matthew Baum , Alauna Safarpour , and Kristin Lunz Trujillo in a recent clause forThe Conversation .
While the authors are not affiliated with the KFF study , their findings too mull the result found by so many pollsters since the Dobbs opinion : that Americans – likemost hoi polloi globally , in fact – stand miscarriage access . Even among Republicans – the only radical poll by KFF to overall approve of the recent Supreme Court opinion – there ’s low support for state - story prohibition than for simply overturning Roe .
“ Not only are nation - level policies presently unaligned with state - level public public opinion , ” Baum et al write , “ but , since the Dobbs determination was announced , Americans also progressively seem to prefer few restrictions on miscarriage , even as many states are travel to ordain more restrictions . ”
That may be bad news for the GOP . Overturning abortion right has long been a tantalise cry for Republican politicians in the USA – but now that the finish of toppling Roe has been bring in , that favorite outcome might be come back to obsess them . As we sawonly yesterday in Kansas , there ’s majority support for abortion right evenin deep crimson states – and the KFF poll also found a needlelike increase in the number of common people who list abortion approach as “ very important ” in take their midterm exam votes this year .
“ abject - turnout midterm elections can be a game of inches , and abortion could make a difference , especially if natural gas prices continue to fall , ” KFF President and CEO Drew Altman said in astatementaccompanying the results .
“ It ’s motivating a draw of younger women to vote , and most Democrats , one-half of fencesitter and even some Republicans plan to vote for candidates who back miscarriage access . ”
