Roe Is the New Prohibition

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Likewise, many of the men and women poised to cast Republican ballots in 2022 and 2024 to protest inflation and COVID-19 school closures may be surprised to discover that anti-abortion laws they had assumed were intended only to prohibit others also apply to them.
52% :Pro-life politics in the United States used to be mostly posturing and positioning, the taking of extreme rhetorical positions at no real-world cost.
51% : Other countries live at peace with variations of a regime in which abortion is legal and readily available in the early weeks of a pregnancy and more strictly regulated thereafter.
50% : The great debate on alcohol offers, a century later, a fascinating parallel with the contemporary one on abortion.
43% : In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court found a constitutional right to abortion; in 1856, the highest court in the state of New York struck down an early prohibition law as a violation of property rights.
41% : As one of the characters in Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel, Babbitt, remarks after a couple of bootlegged cocktails: "The trouble is the manner of enforcement ...

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