What: Nearly 90% of Americans said they support abortion for women who are having pregnancy-related emergencies, according to a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. That support includes 8 in 10 Republicans.
Why it matters: Stories of women carrying non-viable pregnancies or miscarrying but being forced to wait for care until they were near death have become more common since Roe fell. Those stories may be shaping public opinion.
Source: NPR
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MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
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There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.
“They said ‘we think it’s very inappropriate for you to say so.’ I said ‘Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women.’”