I’d also like to know:
1. What the “total” column represents. It’s not clear to me.
2. Is the question “who’s excited for the midterms?” Or “who’s excited to overturn Roe v Wade” because the post combines the two.
3. Was this among Republicans? Democrats? Mixed? It doesn’t say.
4. Was this an online poll? Landline poll? Was it national or done in a state? What was the sample size? It doesn’t say.
5. The age breakdown would honestly be more helpful than breaking it down between “whites” and ppl of color.” Again, the poll isn’t clear who’s taking this poll. Why doesn’t this post provide a link to the poll? Seems suspicious, almost like they’re hiding something. I’m sure Al wouldn’t ever argue in bad faith.
This is by far a better insight into American views of abortion:
UPDATE (June 24, 2022, 12:31 p.m.): On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973, with fi…
fivethirtyeight.com
It’s not as clear cut as one might think
I think one issue that complicates this debate is people conflate reasons for others getting abortions in negative light (they’re lazy and don’t want to be parents) with reasons for why they’d get abortions (wife’s health in danger, rape/incest, etc). Hell, most Americans don’t even know what Roe protects and limits. There’s a lot of nuance to abortion and unfortunately a lot of people are relying on bad faith and emotion to carry their poor arguments.
Americans overwhelmingly believe abortion should be legal AND have some limitations. Protections already in place. But because abortion has been used for decades now to motivate Republicans to the polls and raise money for churches and politicians, there’s a lot of disinformation out there.
Overruling Roe takes away the abortion right in most red states and as we’re seeing, doesn’t end with abortion. It’s bleeding into privacy, birth control, marriage laws, IVF, etc. As red state politicians climb over each other to out-conservative each other and bad faith actors from churches and The Federalist Society push for more restrictive legislation, we’ll continue to see rights for women, the LGBT community, and others erode.
This is a major problem. Republicans are using the courts and states as a way to take away rights, not expand them. They’ll use state rights arguments to erode these rights until they have the majority in Congress and the White House. Then they’ll switch to using the federal government as a bartering ram to codify their restrictive laws. Birth control, IVF, adoption, gay marriage, etc are all on the ballot.