America’s views on abortion are not quite as clear-cut and polarized as many assume...
that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, more than twice as many Americans say they want the court to reaffirm its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision as say they want it overturned , according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, on Wednesday. , found that equal numbers favor and oppose the Mississippi law when it is described as something “that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, or about three and a half months.” A significant share of Democrats , Black Americans and Hispanic Americans also say they support a 15-week ban.
During oral arguments Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts emerged as the leading voice on the right for a narrow decision that would allow other states to ban abortions before 15 weeks but not fully overturn Roe.But Justice Samuel Alito disagreed, arguing that “the only real options we have” are to reaffirm Roe in its entirety or to overrule it — a view that at least two other conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, are thought to share.
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