Lesbians protesting in favor of abortion...but none of them will ever be impregnated by a man.
Abortions that have been legal for decades.
If Roe overturned the issue will go back to individual states where it belongs.
And what would be the results? The Guttmacher Institute, an organization whose research is cited by both sides of the debate, says that 20 states currently have laws on the books and they would remain thus making abortion illegal at least to some extent in those states. 7 other states would probably intact new abortion laws with various degrees of restriction.
The remaining 23 states are unlikely to pass any new abortion laws. Nationally, support for overturning Roe v Wade has fallen from 33% to 28% over the last 15 years. Opposition has risen from 60 to 69%. In these 23 states support for pro choice is even higher, reaching 87% in some blue states.
The cost of an abortion in states where it was illegal would rise by the cost of a plane or bus ticket. Abortion rates would fall in states with abortion laws, and rise in states where abortion was legal. The major impact would be on the poor who would have more unwanted children for the state to support.
Interestingly, the impact on the number of abortions is unlikely to be near as great as believed by those on both sides of the issue.
- First off, abortions have fallen in the US over last 20 years by nearly 50% from 1.2 million to 660,000, a trend that began 25 years ago and is accelerating.
- Second, the wide availability of chemically induced abortions would make enforcement of abortion laws very difficult.
- Lastly, the cost of travel between nearby states where abortion is legal is relatively inexpensive and likely to be made even cheaper by pro choice organizations.
About seven-in-ten Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade
I am disappointed in you flop. In every one of your posts in this thread you are selectively choosing information creating a false impression about trumps character, the women's movement, or abortion. I don't have have a problem with your extreme distaste for trump but let's not support your positions with falsehoods, misdirections, and giant omissions. Let's tell the whole story about the abortion debate.
The main one is that most Americans support abortion access with some significant restrictions. If you were going to craft a law based strictly on public opinion, it would permit abortion in the first trimester (first 12 weeks) of pregnancy and in cases involving rape, incest or threats to the mother’s health. The law, however, would substantially restrict abortion after the first trimester in many other cases.
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Intriguingly, such a policy would be similar to the laws in several European countries,
like France, where abortions are widely available in the first trimester and restricted afterward. It would also be consistent with much of Roe v Wade.
Don't forget to tell your listeners about this fact too
As Gallup’s historical chart shows, opinion on abortion has not shifted in a major way over the years. (It also does not vary much by sex, with women as divided as men on the issue.) But if one side has any slight sway on the trends, it is the anti-abortion campaigners’ side. Twenty years ago, the share of Americans saying abortion should always be legal was more than twice as high as the share saying it should never be legal. Since the mid-1990s, the share of Americans who consider themselves as abortion rights advocates (or “pro-choice” in the poll’s available answers) has also declined:
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I don't expect roe to be overturned, this is a scare tactic of the left. What I do see is many more restrictions on late term abortions, as they absolutely should have, and as the vast majority of the public wants.