Posted on 07/12/2018 12:24:18 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Abortion in the United States is usually thought of as a deeply partisan issue. The majority of Republicans in Congress support restrictions on abortion, and the Democratic Party has included support and public funding for abortion in its most recent official party platform.
Outside the beltway, however, viewpoints about abortion don’t divide neatly among party lines.
Some recent polls show broad support for some abortion rights among Republicans, and another suggests that a noteworthy number of Democrats are in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that cemented abortion’s legality in the United States.
A Marist poll released in January reported that 76 percent of Americans favor some restrictions on abortion, including 60 percent of those who call themselves pro-choice.
The same poll found that more than 60 percent of Democrats, and more than 75 percent of independents, support placing strict limits on abortion, and less than 25 percent of Democrats said they support the right to abortion throughout the entire course of a pregnancy.
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In a 2013 Pew Research poll, only 62 percent of respondents were aware that Roe concerned abortion rights - a full 20 percent admitted that they did not know at all what the case was about. Only 44 percent of respondents under the age of 30 said they knew that Roe was about abortion.***
Ignorance is bliss.
You’d have to educate the masses first, but it really doesn’t matter since the only opinions that count are those of the SCOTUS justices next time a case comes up challenging it.
One worry.
If true that around 25% of women have abortions (if true), then what if they feel remorseful but also defensive and thus want to bolster their decision by voting for abortion rights in elections?
Sort of like drunks voting to keep drinking rights for all vs prohibitionists.
I am in Western Pennsylvania.
Democrats hold an 8:1 registration advantage where I live.
Despite this the area is overwhelmingly Pro-Life, which I attribute to strong Catholic traditions here.
Unfortunately that does not stop most of them from repeatedly pulling the lever for Democrats who never met an abortion they wouldn’t vote for.
Conversely Rush Limbaugh is constantly telling us about the large number of pro abortion Republicans he meets at very important cocktail parties.
Abortion advocates need to be kicked out of the Republican Party.
irishjuggler ~ Excellent reply!
I know a ton of old people who are very traditionally religious, hate taxes and would probably disagree with every major point in the modern Democratic platform who are still registered democrats for some reason. They seem to be completely unaware of what the contemporary leftwing platform is.
I know a ton of young people who are both pro Trump and pro Bernie because of a vague sense that they are both outsiders.
I think a lot of potentially decent people partake of the crap sandwich known as the Democratic Party because they think that’s what it takes to be a decent person. PC victims all.
I know a number of Pro-abortion Republicans.
Most are non-religious and fiscal conservative.
My experience is similar to yours with Pro-Life libs.
Lately, I’ve noticed a lot more so-called conservatives trending Pro-Abortion.
That's entirely untrue. Any overturn or significant revision of the Roe, Doe or Casey decisions would bounce most or all of the decision-making back to the individual states, at which point nothing changes at all unless the "educated masses" mobilize and hold their state legislators' feet to the fire.
Shortly after the Roe and Doe decisions, the first Human Life Amendment proposed for the U.S. Constitution was co-sponsored by two strikingly liberal Senators: Hubert Humphrey (D) and Mark Hatfield (R).
The abortion debate isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a culture issue. I guarantee you that support for abortion is very low in areas where people are still predominately religious and support is high in secularist communities.
It would be easy to take it as a partisan issue since religious communities and conservative communities tend to be the same communities, but that is not universally true.
It is also not true that democrats are monolithic in their cultural values. I’ve got people in my family who pull for D for no reason other than being union people. They are basically opposed to the democrats on almost every other issue but that one, though I’m seeing union support erode rapidly for Dems in the past couple of years. This is part of what gave Trump the win on OH and PA.
Same with most of my neighbors.
Pulled that “D” lever year after year because Grandpa taught them that Democrats are DA PARTY OF DA WORKIN’ MAN! and Republicans support EEEEEEVIL Robber Barons like Andrew Carnegie who made your ancestors slave away in some mill or mine 14 hours a day.
Trump’s election was a watershed moment. His opposition to “free trade” was the key. Democrats talked about economic decline for three decades but never did anything about it.
Unfortunately Pittsburgh is now importing San Francisco Values with an influx of Millenial Techies.
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