Pushing Back On Roe
by Froma Harrop
TomPaine.com
Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for 33 years. Polls show that nearly two-thirds of Americans like it that way. This is a significant majority. But because it is a quiet group, as opposed to the anti-abortion faction, many politicians underestimate it. Republicans are now paying the price, and so will Democrats if they fall for the fiction that anti-abortion sentiment is growing and unstoppable.
What most Americans want is what Roe gives—open access to abortion in the first trimester, with increasing restrictions later on. As long as Roe stands, the legal debate centers only on what those restrictions may be. Some of them have been outrageous—such as the law forbidding military hospitals to provide abortions to women soldiers. It is true that even serious impositions have not aroused the general public. But meddle with the basic right, and the pro-choice giant will jump up and rearrange the political furniture.
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