Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, new polling finds

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

By Ariel Edwards-Levy,

(CNN)Fewer than one-third of Americans want to see the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, according to a set of three polls released over the past week, with key elements of Texas' restrictive new abortion law also garnering relatively little support in the polls.

In a Marquette Law School survey released Wednesday, just 20% of the public favors overturning Roe v. Wade, with 50% opposed to doing so, and another 29% say they haven't heard anything or haven't heard enough to have an opinion on the ruling. In a Monmouth University poll, 62% of Americans say the Supreme Court should leave the decision as is, compared with 31% who want to revisit it. And in a Quinnipiac University survey, Americans say, 67% to 27%, that they generally agree with the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to an abortion.

Those results track with polls earlier this year that also found majority opposition to the idea of overturning Roe v. Wade.

The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks, a case that represents a direct challenge to Roe. A decision is expected next summer as the congressional campaign season heats up.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics/supreme-court-polling-roe-wade/index.html

[PatSeg]

1. Another example of the minority imposing their beliefs on the majority

That is not democracy.

[Farmer-Rick]

26. Absolutely right.

This and many more issues like this where the majority's opinion doesn't matter indicates we have an oligarchy? Plutocracy? Theocracy?

Whatever it is, it isn't a democracy.

[PatSeg]

30. Appears to be a toxic mix of all three

It certainly is beyond anything I could have predicted happening in this country, but then I look around the world and recent history, and I'm sure those people couldn't have anticipated such a takeover happening to them either. Of course, I always knew it was possible, but I naively thought our democracy was strong enough to hold. I'm not so sure anymore. It is probably healthy to live with that awareness though, always vigilant.

[roamer65]

2. A recipe for referenda at state levels.

Those will definitely bring out Democratic voters.

[Chainfire]

3. What does the will of the people have to do with it?

What do you think, that this is a Democracy?

[gilligan]

9. Nope

[redstatebluegirl]

4. This country is being held hostage by a third of the country.

They bully loud and long making it appear there are more of them than there really are.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Is it 50% or is it 50/70 which would be more than 70% ?

With 29% not aware of anything should they be included?

[Igel]

33. Are they people?

Then yes, in this case they should be included.

Otherwise should they opt for an opinion there'll be a shift that has no actual reason except to say, "Sorry, did we fail to include nearly 30% of the data? My, bad!"

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Any ambulance chasers selling eavesdropping kits yet?

Neighborhood spy rings sure to be a thing

[Midnight Writer]

7. It is intensity that counts. Many of the anti-abortion folks are single issue voters.

That gives them an influence belying their size. They will always turn out and they will always vote for the anti-abortion candidate.

We see the same with the gun people.

[Bayard]

8. Too bad the Supreme Court doesn't pay attention to polls

The people TFG appointed have their own agenda.

[PerceptionManagement]

10. tyranny of a far right wing minority

republicans can't win an election legitimately, they've been stealing elections through vote theft. They have stolen America's future

[jaxexpat]

11. How dare 2/3rds of the country stand in the way of the 10% who are blessed.

[Crowman2009]

12. Which means the GOPers are going to lose even more seats if they keep this up.

COVID, infrastructure, publicly funded healthcare? naaaaah, we gotta save them fetuses!

[Crowman2009]

13. I propose we lock arms and block churches who are rabidly pro-life.

Let's see how they like it.

[Bengus81]

14. Why don't they vote that way then? It was also proven they liked the ACA

HYPOCRITES.............

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. Two thirds of Americans is are irrelevant if five justices don't agree.

Like when I say two million signatures doesn't mean anything against one billionaire's checkbook.

[TexasTowelie]

34. Pardon me for deviating from the OP,

but if you are using your sig line as a campaign slogan, then you might be better saying "representing Arizona correctly" rather than "representing Arizona right" because the unaware might believe you are running a conservative platform.

It isn't much different than when you are riding with a gay friend and giving directions. When you come to an intersection instead of telling the driver to go "straight" it is more politically correct to tell that person to go "forward." While it probably won't start a fight there are some that might view it as insensitive, particularly if that person only recently came to terms with their sexuality.

There is also a spelling error in your sig line.

[DownriverDem]

16. Too late

This was the message of 2016.

[NurseJackie]

17. It's really a pity that Sarandon convinced too many of them that Roe didn't matter.

They had their chance, but were too stupid to take it and make the most of it. They listened to Sarandon (et al) and believed the lies that Hillary was the Great Satan who'd start WWIII.

The gullibility of low-information voters continues to astound me. People like Sarandon and Stein (and other like-minded people with extreme and dangerous views) find it very easy to manipulate them. Their kneecapping of Hillary made Trump's job easier for him.

This is on you, Sue. Own it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

18. Hollywood people have THAT much power?

[NurseJackie]

19. Yes.

[betsuni]

21. She's a political activist who campaigned for Nader, Edwards and Sanders (twice) and has

been politically active for many decades.

[AZLD4Candidate]

37. SO has Ted Nugent.

So has Barbra Streisand.

Why is Susan targeted for this much hatred? I don't see people like Nugent, Kid Rock, the Baldwin brother no one remembers, or any celebrity on that side targeted?

Nugent is also anti-choice. Why not say things like "Thanks Nugent for working to strip a woman's right to choose, you miserable excuse for a human being?"

[betsuni]

39. ...

[AZLD4Candidate]

40. Explain it to me in a way I can understand.

I don't normally attack liberals with this much hatred. I may disagree with some things they say, but I don't attack people on my side.

I just really want to know, other than attacking HRC on the campaign, what she has done that really moved the pendulum. As I see, she is a gadfly and most gadflies are ignored, not matter how loud they are, but a majority of voters on our side.

It's only the "burn everything down" nihilists that listen, and we lost them years ago.

[George II]

45. Ted Nugent doesn't claim to be a Democrat.

[d_b]

22. Lol no

Especially not her.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Blame Susan Sarandon when your reproductive rights get taken away

Link to tweet

[AZLD4Candidate]

38. Right wing celebrities who are anti-abortion have no responsibilities?

And she's on the courts now too? She's going to vote down abortion with her vote in the court system?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. Sarandon helped elect TFG

TFG got to appoint three SCOTUS justices which is why Roe is in danger. Sarandon supported Stein and Stein voters were the margin of victory for TFG.
A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for TFG

Link to tweet

[AZLD4Candidate]

42. I completely agree. . .but those are the ANSWER, burn it all down, "Two parties are the same"

nihilists. Even without Sarandon, I believe they would have voted Stein, since they are more at war with the Democrats (who they feel betrayed them for not taking up their fringe left wing platform) than the Republicans (who are against them completely).

I've dealt with those types. They do not believe in compromise. They do not believe in governance. They believe "you are with me, or I will harass you at all times," usually over one issue. I've run into those in my campaign.

No amount of taking to them will change their minds simply because their minds are made up and anything you say is turned around as an attack and as a verification of their idea that the Democrat is the bigger enemy than the Republican.

Some of what Sarandon says I agree with, most I do not. But I do not see how celebrities truly influence politics. It's similar to a celebrity endorsing a product. Just because they are endorsing it doesn't mean I'm going to buy it.

I may be looking at her a different way (and some may call it naive), but I will say this: If I win and go into higher office, like US House or Senate, or the AZ Governor, Sarandon will not be someone I would seek an endorsement from. Some of what she says, I agree. But she is too rigid in her beliefs. I view her a left wing version of the religious right that Barry Goldwater warned the Republicans to avoid.

I don't like absolutes, personally. There are always shades of gray. When I've sat down with Sarandon-types to talk, all I say is "convince me I'm wrong." It usually devolves in "you're just part of the problem" or "you've sold out to the Democratic Party" and it all dies.

[mcar]

32. Sarandon and her ilk wanted "the revolution!!11" to happen

She's safe in her tony enclaves and doesn't give a shite to real people.

Fck her and her fellow revolutionaries.

[NurseJackie]

43. Yes, I feel the same way. I'd also include...

Fck her and her fellow revolutionaries.

Yes, I feel the same way. I'd also include... her fans, and defenders, and apologists. And it would be remiss of me to not also include anyone who, on ELECTION DAY, is telling giving cover to the Stein voters (Sarandon's #NotHillJill crowd) by tweeting out: "How we voted not as important as that we voted. Head & heart at odds for many. Whatever result, we'll work toward a better future together." Totally insane. She didn't care.


twitter.com/janeosanders/status/796107063327854592

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Thank you for posting this

[NurseJackie]

44. You're welcome. It's funny that there are people who think she's a Democrat and on our side.

[JohnSJ]

20. When you refuse to vote for the Democratic nominee in 2016 by either not voting or voting

third party, is this really unexpected?

[dalton99a]

23. We are living under minority rule.

[LiberalFighter]

24. Then the 1/3 should stop having abortions.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. Unpopularity didn't stop Prohibition

but it did repeal it

[malthaussen]

27. Sorry to hear it, that means it's a dead cert. n/t

[hamsterjill]

29. Toxic minority.

I think we need to make that term very popular. Joe coined it in one of his speeches.

[JohnnyRingo]

31. That's why they have never put it to a vote.

They knew better in 1970, and they know better now.
Stacked courts are their only avenue.