Republicans are just appealing to their extremist conservative base.
There is no state in the country where support for banning abortion reaches even 25 percent. (Data for Progress analysis of the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Studies) pic.twitter.com/lrOxU0eNaz
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) May 15, 2019
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— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) May 15, 2019
Do you think Roe vs Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a constitutional right to abortion, was the right decision and should be upheld or was the wrong decision and should be overturned?
Right 56%
Wrong 33%
(PRRI, 8/22-9/2/18)https://t.co/NcyOEkga4i
Yep, @paulwaldman1 is so right about this: The GOP's frontal assault on Roe v. Wade shows that Republicans understand power, and how and when to use it:https://t.co/d0rvUnCEEU
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 15, 2019
"About two-thirds of Americans…believe that Roe v. Wade should remain the law."@cindi_leive, who wrote an NYT op-ed, says AL abortion bill "in no way represents what the majority of Americans believe about how these personal decisions should get made"https://t.co/hyr0Qg1XR2 pic.twitter.com/4JnKMUSaFW
— CNN (@CNN) May 15, 2019