Pinkerton: The Democrats' Rollercoaster on Roe Goes Up, Down, and Maybe Off the Rails

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : So that brings the total of pro-choice states up to around half of the 50 states.
47% : Yet if we step back, we can see that some restrictions on abortion have always been popular.
46% : States should be able to establish their own laws regarding abortion, as they do on everything else."
46% : Here's another recent headline from Daily Kos: "America doesn't want abortion overturned, does want an expanded Supreme Court."
43% : So now, Republicans have six months to get this message across: Ending Roe is about federalism and state sovereignty -- abortion itself will be left to the states.
40% : According to the liberal Guttmacher Institute, 16 states and the District of Columbia have explicitly legislated that abortion will be legal in their jurisdictions, Roe or no Roe.
40% : This point can't be emphasized enough, even if abortion advocates constantly de-emphasize it: Even without Roe, states that want legal abortion -- even up to the last minute of the third trimester -- can have it.
40% : That law restricts abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy; according to the poll, 54 percent of Americans support it, and 41 percent oppose it.
37% : Looking ahead to a post-Roe environment, Guttmacher finds that a total of 26 states will restrict or ban abortion.
35% : Here's the key point: A high court verdict overturning Roe will not, in and of itself, ban abortion.
33% : But abortion may be the midterm issue we've waited for."
21% : Biden is seizing upon this fear: "This is about a lot more than abortion," he said and then asked: "What are the next things that are going to be attacked?"

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