Column: This is among the most consequential lies Trump and Republicans are telling women voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : All said they respected stare decisis, the principle that justices should be guided by the decisions made by previous courts, such as Roe and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, which reaffirmed and refined the rights set out in Roe.Trump officially retreated from his earlier positions in April, saying in a video posted on his Truth Social platform, "My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both.
36% : So how can Trump allay the fears of these voters?
32% : It is a minority -- the loud Christian right to which Trump owes his takeover of the Republican Party -- that does not want women to have abortions ever, full stop.
28% : A Wall Street Journal poll last spring found that while Trump narrowly led President Biden in six of seven battleground states, 39% of suburban women said abortion was a make-or-break issue for them, more important than any other.
27% : "But in June, in a recorded video message for the Danbury Institute, a coalition of Christian nationalists that has described abortion as "child sacrifice," Trump seemed to signal that he agreed.

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