Posted on 05/08/2022 10:43:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
1. The Constitutionality or unconstitutionality of something isn’t determined by public opinion polls.
2. 99% of the public have never read a SCOTUS opinion in their lives, and have no basis whatsoever for evaluating Alito’s reasoning or jurisprudence.
3. Poll after poll have indicated that the majority of Americans think that abortion automatically becomes illegal everywhere and for everyone if Roe is overturned (and the media has some responsibility for this misconception because they imply as much).
Poll taken at the exit door of Planned Parenthood....
Proud anti-populist here for this reason - the masses are asses!
In fact only 34% of Americans say that abortion should be legal without exception at 14 weeks. At 24 weeks that number drops to 22%.
From Pew:
When, exactly, during a pregnancy should abortion be legal, and at what point should it become illegal? To help answer this question, the survey posed follow-up queries about three periods: six weeks (when cardiac activity – sometimes called a fetal heartbeat – can be detected), 14 weeks (roughly the end of the first trimester), and 24 weeks (near the end of the second trimester).
The survey data shows that as pregnancy progresses, opposition to legal abortion grows and support for legal abortion declines. Americans are about twice as likely to say abortion should be legal at six weeks than to say it should be illegal at this stage of a pregnancy: 44% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal at six weeks (including those who say it should be legal in all cases without exception), 21% say it should be illegal at six weeks (including those who say abortion should always be illegal), and another 19% say whether it should be legal or not at six weeks “depends.” (An additional 14% say the stage of pregnancy shouldn’t factor into determining whether abortion is legal or illegal, including 7% who generally think abortion should be legal, and 6% who generally think it should be illegal.)
At 14 weeks, the share saying abortion should be legal declines to 34%, while 27% say illegal and 22% say “it depends.”
When asked about the legality of abortion at 24 weeks of pregnancy (described as a point when a healthy fetus could survive outside the woman’s body, with medical attention), Americans are about twice as likely to say abortion should be illegal as to say it should be legal at this time point (43% vs. 22%), with 18% saying “it depends.”
It’s funny that the mods will allow all these threads on SCOTUS. But they pull any about 2000 Mules immediately? They say to post on existing threads, but never provide a link to any. Nor are there any new threads in breaking news or Front Page News. I must say, I’m pretty frustrated by this behavior. Are they intentionally trying to stop all discussion of this important movie?
The Pew Survey can be downloaded here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/
Doesn’t say who did the poll. But it thunders about eighty six percent agreeing with them, and then concludes,
“The Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.”
The Hill has always been a dreadful and horrific source of lies but now they have quit trying to even look respectable.
It doesn’t say by whom it was taken, either. 2088 respondents from May4-6....sounds and awful like a put up online poll of Twitter Twits, frankly.
The Hill has SO much confidence in their article and ‘pollster’ (and that they needn’t bother answering any more questions about this specious poll) that they CUT OFF all COMMENTS. Real nice push polling there, guys. Screw off...
Yes, well we don’t do justice by polls. So FO lefties.
Roe v Wade was a stupid decision no matter where you stand on abortion. It’s just really bad law, possibly the worst I’ve seen out of the Supremes in my lifetime.
What percentage of those polled were indoctrinated zillennials? 🙄
Agree. The BEST thing that can be said about the m’effer W is that he was the best Republican alternative - at the time. Nonetheless, I am very sorely ashamed that I voted for him for want of a better conservative candidate and because of the pure filth against he was running.
Today? I’m looking forward to his funeral....
An attempt at court deliberations meddling?
I betcha it was totally online from ‘selected’ social media users.
If Roe vs. Wade is overturned as the opinion is written abortion will still be legal in the USA it will just be a matter of which state you need to go to so you can get one.
The MSM wants to mislead people into believing that abortion will be made illegal everywhere in the USA.
It won’t.
In other news, almost 2 in 3 say the US should intervene militarily in Ukraine.
/s
(’News’?? C’mon, man)
YouGov is online.
How many people wanted gay marriage before the SCOTUS enacted it as if it was in the constitution? Every vote on it I saw was against it.
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