Pollak: Republicans Need to Show More Empathy on Abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : What Republicans need to do is show empathy for women who might one day consider abortion, even though many conservatives, out of care for the life of the unborn child, find the very possibility of abortion to be abhorrent.
50% : Yet empathy is the key to unlocking Democratic Party control of abortion and the votes it represents.
49% : Abortion has become a symbol for the freedom women want to determine their own fates.
45% : Some conservatives want the focus to be on the radicalism of Democrats' support for abortion until birth.
41% : The most "electable" candidate may be the one who is bold enough to change the way the party talks about abortion and motherhood in a post-Dobbs era.
39% : The Republican presidential field is deeply divided over abortion, and is failing to reach female voters who could be a decisive bloc in the 2024 presidential race.
39% : But while it explained the limitations of any attempt to legislate abortion from D.C., it did not offer a way forward.
37% : The problem is that Republicans discuss abortion in moralizing terms, or as if it is a problem to be solved.
26% : North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who has a solid pro-life record, disagreed, saying that conservatives ought not try to federalize abortion after arguing for a half-century that it was an issue that should be decided at the state level.
25% : Many candidates, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, back a federal ban on abortion.

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