TOBIAS: Abortion Will Be A Decisive Issue For Voters In The Upcoming Midterms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Put another way, there is a net advantage for pro-life candidates among those who take abortion into account when voting.
44% : A January 2022 Marist poll found that 71% of Americans support limits on abortion, including a majority of Independents and a sizable number of Democrats.
44% : The same poll also found 54% of respondents oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
43% : After the 2020 elections, a McLaughlin & Associates poll commissioned by National Right to Life found that 41% of voters nationally said abortion affected their vote.
40% :Democrats plan to run on their support for the so-called Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA), a radical bill which really should be called "Abortion Without Limits Until Birth Act" because it would enshrine abortion in federal law and would tear down pro-life protections on the state level.
38% : Most Americans do not know that Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, usurped the power of the people through their duly elected representatives to enact laws on abortion and imposed abortion for any reason throughout pregnancy.
34% : Below is a column arguing that abortion will be a decisive issue in the 2022 midterms.
33% : You can find a counterpoint here, where Carrie Sheffield argues that abortion will not be a decisive issue in the midterms.
32% : Making it one of his central issues, McAuliffe ran countless ads hitting now-Governor Glenn Youngkin on abortion.

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