Poll Finds 57% of Millennials Don’t Even Know Roe v. Wade is About Abortion

With the talk of pro-life U.S. Supreme Court nominees and Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned, it is important to actually know what the landmark abortion case is about.

A Democratic pollster recently pointed out that most millennials do not know what Roe v. Wade is about, or when abortion was legalized.

“Millennials think that Roe v. Wade happened right after the American Revolution,” Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research, said on a Friday episode of “What America’s Thinking,” a show on Hill.TV about polls and public opinion.

Furthermore, a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of polled adults aged 18 to 29 did not know that the 1973 case dealt with abortion. Despite their lack of knowledge regarding this seemingly important “right,” it appears some millennials still fight for this ruling despite not knowing what it did.

When Roe v. Wade was handed down, many abortion supporters stated that abortion would be “safe, legal, and rare.” That has proved itself to not be the case. Even some abortion advocates say the poorly-written case has no constitutional basis, and its loose language has opened the door to widespread abortions.

Because of Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the United States is one of only seven countries in the world that permits elective abortions past 20 weeks — a fact confirmed by the Washington Post fact checker.

Roe v. Wade opened the doors to 60 million abortions in America. The case, along with Doe v. Bolton, forced states to allow abortions for almost any reason up to birth. The two decisions took away states’ power to regulate abortions and protect unborn babies. More recent Supreme Court rulings have allowed for modest abortion regulations and restrictions, but abortions remain widely unregulated in the first and second trimester of pregnancy.

Regardless of what many younger voters may or may not know about America’s abortion laws, many citizens still want to see change. A Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans want all or most abortions to be made illegal. A Knights of Columbus poll from January found that 76 percent of Americans support significant abortion restrictions.

In light of today’s Supreme Court nomination, it is important that citizens follow the news and see who the president’s pick is for the court. And people who are worried about the future of their own freedoms and rights should first understand where the so-called “right” to abort an unborn baby came from and how truly radical that court ruling was.

Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman’s constitutional right of privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (“…nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”).

The case began in 1970 when “Jane Roe”—a fictional name used to protect the identity of the plaintiff, Norma McCorvey—instituted federal action against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas county, Texas, where Roe resided. The Supreme Court disagreed with Roe’s assertion of an absolute right to terminate pregnancy in any way and at any time and attempted to balance a woman’s right of privacy with a state’s interest in regulating abortion. In his opinion, Blackmun noted that only a “compelling state interest” justifies regulations limiting “fundamental rights” such as privacy and that legislators must therefore draw statutes narrowly “to express only the legitimate state interests at stake.” The court then attempted to balance the state’s distinct compelling interests in the health of pregnant women and in the potential life of fetuses. It placed the point after which a state’s compelling interest in the pregnant woman’s health would allow it to regulate abortion “at approximately the end of the first trimester” of pregnancy. With regard to the fetus, the court located that point at “capability of meaningful life outside the mother’s womb,” or viability.

Repeated challenges since 1973 narrowed the scope of Roe v. Wade but did not overturn it. In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), the Supreme Court established that restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional if they place an “undue burden” on a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus is viable. In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (2003), which prohibited a rarely used abortion procedure known as intact dilation and evacuation. In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016), the court invoked its decision in Casey to strike down two provisions of a Texas law that had required abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centres and abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

In 1998, having undergone two religious conversions, McCorvey publicly declared her opposition to abortion.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Roe-v-Wade

Simple test, going forward for any and all elections and being granted the privilege to vote ....

1. You own property and pay property taxes

If you don’t pay property taxes, then you have to meet 3 criteria2 tests you have to pass, at say, 90%(all other prohibitions to voting apply

2. You must be a citizen ... No other way around it. No Green Card holder, Permanent Resident, nothing

3. You have been in the workforce for at least 10 years, have filed all your taxes

4. Can pass a very simple test on on the history of this country, how the government functions, the 3 branches of government and what they are supposed to do, how laws are made, who is responsible for tax laws - both income and property - and where the money goes to and what it funds ... I guess, basically the, Naturalization Test. Hell they can’t argue it’s discriminatory since the give to LEGAL Immigrants wanting to become citizens..

5. Have to be able to identify, being shown photos: President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, their US State’s Senators, their rep for the US House and their state’s Governor.

And voter rolls, on every level, will be purged of dead folks, etc and VoterID is the law of the land.

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