New polling has shown that the majority of Americans oppose a Supreme Court ruling that would reverse federal abortion rights protections throughout the U.S.
This month, Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion.It was revealed that the Court’s majority is ready to rule in that direction Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling that enshrined abortion rights protections throughout the U.S. — was “egregiously wrong from the start.”
Matthew Hale is cited in the draft opinion. an English jurist from the 17th century who was known for issuing death sentences to women accused of witchcraft and who was responsible for precedents that husbands couldn’t be charged with rape against their wives, a legal notion that was widely embraced until the 1970s.
In light of the draft opinion leak, abortion has become a prime issue for voters in this year’s midterm elections, an NBC News survey published on Sunday suggests.
When NBC NewsWhen the question was last asked in March, only 3 percent of respondents indicated that abortion was the most important issue to them. When the same question was asked in May, that number more than tripled, with 1 in 10 voters describing abortion as the most critical issue in this year’s congressional elections.
According to the poll, Americans are 2 to 1 more likely to vote for a candidate who supports abortion rights. Only 26 percent of the poll’s respondents said they would be more likely to support a candidate that backs overturning Roe52 percent indicated that they would support a candidate who pledges to prevent climate change, and 52 percent said the same. RoeYou can’t be overturned.
Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of the poll’s respondents said they do not want the Supreme Court to abolish the abortion rights protections established in Roe. The poll It was also discovered that 60 percent of Americans want abortion to always be legal, or to be legal most of the timeOnly 37 percent of respondents wanted abortion to be outlawed under most circumstances or banned at all, and only 37% said the same.
The NBC News This latest poll is part of a series that shows Americans support keeping abortion rights intact in the United States. A recent CBS NewsFor example, see the /YouGov poll last week. 58% of respondents stated that they want Congress to pass a law to codify abortion protectionsOnly 42 percent of respondents said they were against such a measure.
Last Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill to establish national standards for protecting abortion rights. failed to passAfter it was blocked, every Republican along with Sen. Joe Manchin (right-wing Democrat) stopped it.
