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Republicans are going hard against public opinion by pushing a national abortion ban [1]

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Date: 2022-09-15

The poll also found 31% support for abortion to be legal in all cases, 30% support for it to be legal in most cases, 25% wanting it to be illegal in most cases, and 10% wanting it to be illegal in most cases. That’s 61% for legal abortion to 35% against it. Once again, that looks like bad news for Republicans pushing for a national 15-week ban.

Just two religious groups—Mormons and evangelical Christians—did not have majority support for abortion rights, according to the poll. Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jews, atheists and agnostics, and people with no religious affiliation all showed majority support for legal abortion.

But Republicans have introduced a national 15-week abortion ban in both the Senate and the House, with three cosponsors so far in the Senate and 86 so far in the House. Senate candidates in several battleground states have expressed support for the national abortion ban, too. When Sen. Lindsey Graham, the sponsor of the Senate bill, said, “If we take back the House and Senate, I can assure you we'll have a vote,” he was telling the truth.

Many Senate Republicans wish their party wasn’t talking about this right now, because it’s extremely bad politics less than two months ahead of the midterm elections, but there’s no doubt that they’d been planning for a national abortion ban long before this. House Republicans have introduced more than 150 bills limiting abortion rights, and following the initial leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the decision would mean that “legislative bodies—not only at the state level but at the federal level—certainly could legislate in that area,” and that a federal abortion ban was “possible.”

Republicans are out of step with the U.S. public on this. But that won’t stop them from pushing it the minute they have the control of Congress they need to do so.

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