The Looming End to Abortion Rights Gives Liberal Democrats a Spark

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Roe v. Wade is a landmark Supreme court decision that legalized abortion across the United States.
46% : Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a modest Midwestern Republican and a defender of the right to abortion, wrote the majority opinion.
41% : The ruling struck down laws in many states that had barred abortion, declaring that they could not ban the procedure before the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb.
34% : Matthew Walther, Editor of a Catholic Literary Journal: Those who oppose abortion should not discount the possibility that its proscription will have some regrettable consequences.
31% : Thirteen states have so-called trigger laws, which would immediately make abortion illegal if Roe were overturned.
30% :Many voters are angry and scared at the prospect of a wave of new laws making abortion illegal in a post-Roe America.
28% : Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas, the only House Democrat to vote against legislation to ensure abortion rights nationwide, insisted in an ad before his May 24 runoff with Jessica Cisneros, a progressive candidate, that he "opposes a ban on abortion."
22% : Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan: If Roe falls, abortion will become a felony in Michigan.

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