Big Majority Don't Want to Overturn Roe v. Wade

[DonViejo]

Source: PoliticalWire


June 29, 2018 at 8:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll poll finds that 67% of the American public do not want the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that established women’s constitutional right to abortion.”

“The poll finds a slim majority (53%) of Republicans would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned, while large majorities of Democrats (81%) and independents (73%) would not. Similar shares of women (68%) and men (65%) want Roe v. Wade to stand, but among women of reproductive age, three-quarters (74%) want Roe v. Wade to stand.”

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[dembotoz]

1. majority doesn't want toddlers in cages either and yet.......

[Golden Raisin]

16. Or Trump in the Oval Office. And yet......

[DownriverDem]

17. It doesn't matter

We are being controlled by the minority. Why in hell didn't folks listen to us about voting for Hillary? Besides the candidate, you vote for what the party stands for. We will be suffering for a long time.

[Honeycombe8]

34. Exactly. Plus, the S.Ct. doesn't decide cases according to the popular view.

It decides cases based on the laws, the Consitution, rights of citizens, interpretation, preceding case decisions, etc.

And what the voters on the right SAY they want is different from what they DO. If they vote for candidates whose goal is to wipe out choice, that is what those voters WANT, despite what they say in a poll.

[workinclasszero]

20. Bingo

It doesn't mean shit what the people want in this country and hasn't for a long time.

Majorities want legal pot, affordable or single payer health care, decent paying minimum wage jobs, clean air and water, the rich to pay their fair share in taxes, no babies locked up in cages by Trump's ICE etc.

And guess what? The fucking GOP government doesn't give a DAMN!

Trump and Pence WILL DELIVER to their fanatic religious right the death of Roe, count on that!

[NewJeffCT]

35. A big majority wanted expanded background checks on gun purchases as well

and that failed.

[Blue_Adept]

2. Of course, the will of the people has long not meant anything.

[Moostache]

37. Upwards of 90% support gun restrictions on no-fly list members...and we get nothing

The owners of this country, the 15-20 mega-rich clans that inter-marry and rule us from on high, they don't care wtf the public wants...we get what they allow and no more.

[7962]

38. I give that one to my NRA friends. And they'll all say they support a ban!

I tell them to tell it to the damn NRA

[Archae]

3. They know the facts about abortion.

Especially the fact that the biggest mouths screaming that they are "pro-life" have had their mistresses get abortions when they got knocked up.

[RKP5637]

4. Many remember the coat hangers and/or horrible stories and deaths. n/t

[workinclasszero]

21. Many are going to see this first hand

soon.

[Lochloosa]

5. Then they should have voted that way.

[ck4829]

7. They did.

Maybe the government doesn't represent the will of the people.

[LonePirate]

6. That majority has no power in DC right now.

[efhmc]

8. Not to be snarky but this matters how exactly? nt

[Judi Lynn]

47. A more honest comment would be to acknowledge you want to say the OP isn't important.

Clearly it has importance to the majority of people in this country who believe women's choices about their own lives are not to be overriden by people who want to interfere.

[still_one]

9. Well it is a little bit f**king too late. Just wait, there will be a lot more things they won't

the SC to overturn.

Funny how among some, it isn't a issue until they realize this will actually hurt them.

I guess we will see in November just how serious the voters are

[leftofcool]

10. Too bad that ship sailed.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. Would overturning this cause riots coast to coast?

He’ll probably go full martial law at that point.

[Paladin]

13. Coast-to-coast rioting? Hope so. (nt)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. No. It would probably just be left to each state to decide.

The only women directly affected will be those without the means to travel to states (or countries) where it's legal.

So, no reason to riot coast-to-coast.

Trump's mistresses, the mistresses of well-to-do evangelicals, they're covered because they can travel.

[lapfog_1]

32. you gotta know that they will pass laws in those anti-abortion states

to make it illegal to travel to another state or country for the purpose of having an abortion.

And I predict they are going to pass laws to punish women who obtain abortions... even women who live in states where it is legal to have an abortion. If those women move or travel to those states, they can be expected to be arrested for their "illegal" acts.

Remember that the anti-abortion nut jobs believe that abortion is murder, and the guilty parties are both the women who have them and the doctors that perform them.

The President they elected has stated this in an interview with Chris Matthews.

[7962]

40. Who would ever know? People travel from state to state all the time.

I dont see how Texas could "catch" someone going to New Mexico? Medical info is protected, so a clinic wouldn't release that info.
Youre right about Trump, although he rarely really knows what hes saying when he says it

[standingtall]

12. To bad the only majority that really matters on this issue is the majority on the supreme court

[FakeNoose]

14. Big majority of Americans never took a high school civics class

...or if they took one, they weren't paying attention. That's why we're back to square one now. The GOP is playing with fire and they're going to burn it all down.

I wonder how many lady-friends' abortions has Cheeto personally paid for? That would be an interesting statistic. Not that it's anybody's business, but it would demonstrate how little concern he has for the Pro-Lifers.

[CapnSteve]

15. Glass half full - The Blue Tsunami grows with every atrocity...

Ingnore. Upstage. Indict.

[muntrv]

18. A big majority didn't vote for Twitler.

[progree]

19. This poll was taken before A. Kennedy's retirement was announced

Polls come out more pro-choice when there's recent news of a real threat to abortion rights (as that makes it more of a "real" issue than a philosophical/rhetorical issue to some people), so I would expect a poll taken soon after the A. Kennedy retirement news to be even more pro-choice than this.

[malthaussen]

22. Then they should have thought of it earlier.

How many of that 67% didn't bother to vote to head off the upcoming train wreck? Will they bother to vote now?

-- Mal

[OnlinePoker]

24. Just putting this out there

What do you think would be the reaction on DU if the 16% of Democrats who want it overturned (according to the survey) would start posting that opinion here?

[FiveGoodMen]

28. I think they'd be told that they don't belong here

Fuck the 'Big Tent' we need to stand for something!

[GulfCoast66]

45. They would be in violation of the TOS.

The Democratic Party supports the right of all Americans to make their own health choices including when to terminate a pregnancy. States it in our platform.

The republicans state otherwise in theirs. So if someone, even a democrat make an anti-Roe comment on DU they are posting republican talking points and their post would be hidden.

They are welcome to post on other subjects and as long as they are members of the Democratic Party and only vote for democrats they are welcome here. But I doubt you will see m(any)

[Beartracks]

25. GOP doesn't care. They want to rule, not govern. n/t

[Squinch]

26. Then "Big Majority" should have fucking voted to protect it. But they didn't.

[ehrnst]

27. Voter opinions are not a deciding factor in SCOTUS rulings. They know that.

That's why the GOP wants this SCOTUS seat so badly.

They can secure the laws that they pass now.

[SCVDem]

29. The big picture

First ban abortion.
Next remove maternity leave.
Then any aid for women with children is removed.

Now a woman taking time off is fired and a white male takes her job. Women are powerless once again. They need to rely on a man.

Mission accomplished!

[yallerdawg]

30. HuffPo points out...

in 2020 - if we take it all! - we can stuff the court, 11, 13, 15 - whatever we want!

Under FDR, just the threat alone straightened out the Supreme Court - stopped ruling against the New Deal!

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. So the Republicans in marginal seats will just be careful to not ask the SC nominee directly

"will you vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?" That way, they can just say "I voted for a judge who'd be true to the Constitution blah blah blah", and let the Supreme Court take the heat, who don't have to give a toss what voters think. The states where Republicans have comfortable majorities will ban abortion and get away with it.

[Ohiogal]

33. Even if the majority of the American people say this in a poll

Doesn't mean the fascists and theocrats won't try to ram their ideology down our throats anyway.

[world wide wally]

36. All this is nothing compared to Hillary's dangerous emails

[hibbing]

39. The ruling class will always have access

Like many have said, it does not matter anymore what the majority of citizens want. The ruling class will always have access to clean and safe abortion.

Peace

[get the red out]

41. And people in Iran don't want a lot of shit

But that's not how religiously controlled governments work, you take whatever shit they give you, no choice.

[Snellius]

42. But are those the majorities in Red or Blue states?

[DBoon]

43. A big majority voted for HRC over Trump too

sorry, but the majority does not matter anymore

A dictator listens only to himself and his loyal supporters, not to anyone else

[KCDebbie]

44. Overturning Roe vs Wade will be like Prohibiton REDUX!

[Politicub]

46. Grounds for impeachment

Any judge that concurs with an opinion repealing Roe is committing bad behavior against the body autonomy and right to privacy of women. For this reason, he could be impeached and forcibly removed from the bench.

Article 3 [of the constitution] mentions good behavior of judges, without defining it. According to the Congress.org website, produced by CQ-Roll Call Group, this is taken to mean that the reasons for impeachment of a federal judge aren't limited to criminal acts.

Source: https://legalbeagle.com/6596992-rules-removing-supreme-court-justice.html