Always important to some voters, abortion policy could move from the hypothetical to the very real if the draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion leaked this week becomes a final order overturning Roe v. Wade.
Rally participants bow their heads for prayer. March for Life, and the Pennsylvania Family Institute, host the Pennsylvania March for Life at the state Capitol. Marchers at the event are calling on legislators to protect unborn children. September 27, 2021. Dan Gleiter | [email protected] has always been a flashpoint in Pennsylvania politics.
No longer will state-level candidates be talking about the abortion issue in the abstract, offering up position statements that in reality could go no further than tinkering at the margins of settled precedent. Rather, they will be running onwith the real chance of making seismic changes to abortion law depending upon election results.
But, when the Gallup pollsters pressed the “certain circumstances” cohort more deeply on their views, it turned out that two-thirds of them, or 33 percent, meant legal in “only a few circumstances,” a phrasing that calls to mind the commonly-accepted exceptions like rape, incest or a grave risk to the life of the mother. Only 13 percent said they meant abortion should be legal in most circumstances.
A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, early Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a report published Monday night in Politico. It's unclear if the draft represents the court's final word on the matter.
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