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The Adventures of Stalwart Soul, Chapter 4 - Home

“Stal.”

The little chocobo looked up at the soft voice, and cried out happily. “KWEH!”

He rushed to her side, but then slowed as he came nearer. Gently, slowly, he pushed his head forward, nuzzling her face softly.

She had come back, his little master. He was glad. But still, something was still not right. She felt too hot. Her eyes were watery. Not bright. She was not steady. She trembled. And he had understood.

Sickness.

She was sick. Instinct had told him to run away, but he would not. He could not protect her from sickness. But still he would not run. Instead, he stayed close. As close as was allowed. He could not go into the building, could not cuddle his little master close as she slept. But he offered her what support he could.

“Kwoo,” he called softly, comfortingly, gently butting his head against his little master’s chest. She chuckled softly at his antics and smoothed his crest feathers soothingly.

“ ‘M alright, Stal,” she told him quietly. “Just tired.”

He did not understand the words, but cooed in response to them.

“No, really. ‘M fine. Just… wanted ta feel the wind. ‘S stuffy inside.”

Her voice wavered just a bit. It was not good. Concerned, he pulled back just a little, gently grooming the soft not-feathers on her head with his beak. She batted at him weakly.

“No, stop. ‘M not needin choco drool in my hair,” she whined, closing her eyes against a wave of dizziness.

Sensing her unsteadiness, the chocobo dropped to the ground, using his body to support her, so that she did not fall to the ground.

“Oh…”

Sickness. She was sick. He knew. She needed to sleep. To rest, to be cared for. She needed shelter to get better. He looked around, but no one was there. Gently, carefully, he urged her back towards the door to the people-stable, but she refused to go.

“No, is stuffy.”

He kept pushing gently. Eventually, she settled against the door frame, sitting on the wooden floor of the stoop. Refusing to go further. He huffed at her stubbornness. Then, carefully, he settled around her, trying to shield her from the wind as best he could. She clutched at him then, and water fell weakly from her eyes. She was hot, too hot, and it was not comfortable for him. But he would endure.

As she fell asleep, she muttered under her breath. “...home… wanna go… home…”

Home. He knew that word. Home was not here. Here was a place with the ocean smell everywhere -- the smell of fish, and salt, and water that tasted bad. Home was different. Home smelled of trees, and shady plants, and sweet water. Home was far from here. But he thought he knew how to get there.

He looked down at his little master, clutching at him in her sleep. Determination stirred in his heart.

Home. She wanted home. If she wanted home, then he would take her home. But first, she needed rest.

He watched her sleep. And waited for her to wake up.

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When she woke, she was a little better, a little stronger. But the fever persisted, as did the longing for the familiar shade of home. And despite knowing it was a bad idea, she managed to drag herself up to saddle Stal.

She knew from the start that it was a bad idea. Who in their right mind saddled a choco and went for a ride when they were ill? Suffering from a fever and unstable aetheric flows? As a healer, she knew better, and anyone under her care who attempted such a thing would have been lectured and bullied straight back to bed. But the selfish, childish part of her overrode the sensible healer part.

Stal seemed to know what was needed, and was strangely docile. He stood quietly, letting his little master tighten the girth and adjust the saddle carefully. When it was time for her to climb up on his back, he lay as flat as he could, as low as he could, to make it easier. When he stood again, he was careful to go slowly, giving her time to adjust.

Now, he was making his way carefully along the roads. There was no excited chirping, or fidgeting, or hopping about. He didn’t pay any attention to the other chocobos racing down the path. He didn’t try climbing up the rock outcroppings nearby. Or fences. Or half-crumbled stone walls. Instead, he kept moving forward, keeping his pace slow and steady. His gait was so smooth, she even found herself dozing off from time to time.

Or maybe that was just the sickness, making her tired.

She was sleeping now. Sleeping was good, he knew. It would help her fight the sickness. But it was bad, too. Sleeping made it hard to go fast, because she might fall off. So he did not go fast. Instead, he went slow. Slow to let her sleep more. Slow to keep her from falling.

But slow would not get her Home.

Still, he kept going. Until he scented something familiar. Something approaching. Something big, and rumbling. Pulled by chocobos. As they came within view, the rumbling stopped, and a tall figure jumped off the large thing to walk up to the small chocobo, he waited nervously.

“Well, what have we here?” asked a familiar voice gruffly. “Someone causing trouble again, I see.”

He knew that voice. When the figure reached out and took the reins from his little master’s lax hands, he did not resist. When the newcomer started them off in a different direction, he followed.

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She was only half-awake when they stopped moving. Wondering why, she tiredly opened her eyes and blinked in confusion.

She wasn’t on Stal’s back. She wasn’t even at the homestead she’d been sent to, to recover. Instead, she was laying down inside a wagon. And a very familiar blanke.. In a very familiar wagon, which smelled of cured herbs and remedies.

Oh no.

She closed her eyes quickly, even as she heard the curtain being pushed aside. Maybe if she were lucky…

“Tala,” a stern voice called firmly. “I know you’re awake.”

She sighed and opened her eyes.

“Hi Kory,” she greeted quietly, with a half-hearted grin for her eldest sister.

Golden eyes gazed down at her unblinkingly for a moment, then the Roe woman sighed. “I won’t lecture you, Tala. I’ll leave that to Mother, once we get back home. But we’re stopping for the night here, so stay inside, and keep warm. I’ll bring you some tea in a bit. Rest now.”

“Thankee, Kory,” she said, settling back under the blanket and closing her eyes again.

Korynna Tahl just shook her head and withdrew to start the campfire. The draft chocos were already tethered to the side. The smallest choco, however, still hovered by the wagon, untethered. She knew her sister’s little pet, and knew he wouldn’t stray, or flee in panic at an errant twig snapping.

She patted his head. “She’s fine,” she reassured the worried bird. “We’ll get her home, and she can rest up and get better. Now, why don’t you get some rest too, Stal.”

Reluctantly, he curled up next to the wagon to sleep.

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How Do Republicans Feel About Abortion

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How Do Republicans Feel About Abortion

Older People Are More Stubborn About Their Political Views According To The Survey They Were Overall Less Likely To Report Having Changed Their Minds About The Legal Procedure And If They Did They Were More Likely To Have Shifted Towards Opposing Legal Abortion

The poll also asked the respondents about their moral and ethical beliefs about abortion, and again, there was a huge difference among generations. Fifty-four percent of Americans said that abortion went “against their personal beliefs” and 44 percent said that it did not. Of that 54 percent who said that abortion violated their beliefs, 60 percent of them were older, and only 44 percent were in the 18-to-29 age group.

Others were able to separate their personal beliefs from the politics of abortion, with 34 percent of people saying that although they thought that abortion went against their moral and ethical beliefs, they did believe that women should have the right to choose in “most or all cases.”

PRRI CEO Robert Jones said in a statement accompanying the poll that he believes the disparity between older and younger people has to do with younger people moving away from religion, which is backed up by other research. According to the Pew Research Center, white evangelicals across the board have consistently opposed abortion, while other groups such as “mainline Protestants” and Catholics are more divided when it comes to their beliefs about abortion rights. But most religions are losing younger members, except for Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. So unlike older generations, which might be guided by solely by religion, younger people are able to see abortion as a political and civil rights issue. Jones said in a statement:

Republican Leaders Asked The Supreme Court To End Legal Abortion They May Get Their Wish

Finally, Republicans are saying what they have always meant about abortion: They want to make it illegal for everyone all the time, full stop.

On Thursday, more than 200 Republican members of Congress filed by the anti-abortion organization Americans United for Life, asking the Supreme Court to reconsider and potentially overturn the landmark abortion rights rulings in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade. That represents fully 80 percent of congressional Republicans, and included 39 Republican senators and the three top House Republicans.

Opinionhere’s How The Supreme Court May All But End Abortion Without Killing Roe V Wade

The impetus was the case June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, which the Supreme Court agreed in October to hear; on the docket in March, it will be the court’s first time hearing a case on abortion rights with Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the bench. The case centers on a 2014 Louisiana law that requires abortion providers in the state to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, known in reproductive rights circles as a TRAP law . If the court sides with Louisiana, all but one clinic in the state will be forced to close — and many people’s access to abortion services will be eliminated in other states across the country that either have or will pass similar laws.

The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Louisiana law surprised many observers because it is identical to a Texas law that was struck down by the court a mere four years ago. But Republican supporters of the law were using very different language then, both in public statements and before the courts: They framed the admitting privileges provision not as a means of curtailing abortion, but as a means of protecting the health and safety of women. “The common-sense measures Texas has put in place elevate the standard of care and protect the health of Texas women,” Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton said before oral arguments in 2016.

Opinionrepublicans’ New Abortion Laws Will Harm Women So Much For Being ‘pro Life’

Over the years, though, Republican doublespeak has lulled too many Americans who otherwise support legal abortion into a sense of complacency. They’ve continued to essentially make abortions more and more difficult to obtain or all but illegal, while telling us what we wanted to hear: “We’re protecting women!” “We’re giving women more options!” “We’re making abortion safer!” All the while, they were methodically laying the groundwork for the moment they could simply make it illegal everywhere, once they had a Supreme Court stacked against abortion and an electorate too inundated with misinformation and riddled with gerrymandering and voter suppression to actively fight back.

They’ve done it under our noses, in front of our faces, for decades. They have been restricting and trying to ban abortion in order to create Supreme Court test cases, rendering Roe v. Wade meaningless for an ever-increasing number of people, all while steadfastly maintaining that they were being reasonable — that they were the ones working to improve abortion safety — when in reality, they were working to end legal abortion all along. Republicans may have been gaslighting Americans to the point of no return with Roe v. Wade.

And now we’re all about to see just how much that gaslighting has paid off for them, and how steep the price is that the vast majority of Americans who support the legal right to abortion will have to pay in return.

Biden Is Outspending Trump On Tv And Just 6 States Are The Focus Of The Campaign

“I’m a mother. I birthed three children,” she said. “And the feeling of life in me is real at conception.”

This is one way Ludwig is similar to many other Trump voters. In a year when Americans are thinking about recession, a pandemic, racial justice, climate change and policing, Trump voters repeatedly in interviews brought up abortion in explaining their voting decisions.

Two hundred miles away from Oconomowoc, in Cresco, Iowa, farmer William Goetch stood chatting with a friend outside a grocery store on a sweltering August day.

Goetch farms just outside of Cresco, in an area that voted solidly for President Obama in 2012 and then for solidly for Trump in 2016. I asked Goetch if he, too, could ever be a swing voter.

“No, I couldn’t be. Just mostly because the issue of abortion,” he said, noting that he doesn’t like Democrat Joe Biden’s support of abortion rights.

His friend, John Whelan, said he’s undecided on who he’ll support. But listening to Goetch, Whelan said that he thinks abortion might sway his vote, as well.

“You hear the abortion thing — that’s kind of a big thing for being Catholic. So that could be the final straw,” he said.

A high priority, but rarely the top priority

Biden wants there to be a federal law protecting the right to an abortion.

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Electing Republicans Has Not Reversed Roe V Wade Its Time To Change Our Strategy

William T. Cavanaugh

For a response to this essay, see “Four reasons a Democratic administration would mean more abortions,” by Richard Doerflinger.

When looking for extracurricular involvement my first semester in college, I went to meetings of two groups: Right to Life and College Republicans. It was the fall of 1980, and Ronald Reagan was running on a staunch anti-abortion platform. I thought that we needed to take back control of the Supreme Court from the Democrats and overturn Roe v. Wade.

I did not realize then that there had not been a majority of Democratic appointees on the Supreme Court since 1970—three years before Roe. Many people don’t realize that this is still true today. There has been a majority of Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court for 49 of the last 50 years. The lone exception was the year after Antonin Scalia died, when there was a 4-4 split. And yet abortion is still legal. Still, many think we must vote Republican so that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the possibility that President Trump will name her replacement has further raised expectations about a reversal of Roe. But there is reason for skepticism.

There has been a majority of Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court for 49 of the last 50 years. And yet abortion is still legal.

Despite Republican promises to end abortion, it has not happened. Why?

Ellen K. Boegel

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How Far Does Support For Abortion Go And What Does Support Actually Look Like

As mentioned earlier, there is a gradation of opinion among people who believe that abortion should be legal under most or certain circumstances. In order to understand that variance of opinion, we further explored the aforementioned KFF Abortion Knowledge and Attitudes report, which dove deep into this topic.

The report found that while the majority of people are generally supportive of abortion being legal in some form, most people are fairly comfortable putting some restrictions or limitations on abortion rights and access. For example, 66 percent of those surveyed said they support laws requiring people to wait 24 hours between meeting with a health-care provider and getting an abortion, and 57 percent said they support laws requiring doctors to show and describe ultrasound images to people seeking an abortion. These are examples of laws that are designed to make it harder for people to get abortions, and yet a clear majority of respondents supported these measures.

Anti-abortion rights rhetoric and misinformation has seeped into mainstream understanding of abortion. Miller theorizes that misinformation is able to persist because the stigma surrounding abortion keeps people from talking about it openly.

Missouri’s Last Abortion Provider Wins Reprieve As Judge Rules Against State

The poll found that Americans are very much against requiring fines and/or prison time for doctors who perform abortions. There was also slim majority support for allowing abortions at any time during a pregnancy if there is no viability outside the womb and for requiring insurance companies to cover abortion procedures. A slim majority also opposed allowing pharmacists and health providers the ability to opt out of providing medicine or surgical procedures that result in abortion.

At the same time, two-thirds were in favor of a 24-hour waiting period from the time a woman meets with a health care professional until having the abortion procedure itself; two-thirds wanted doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges; and a slim majority wanted the law to require women to be shown an ultrasound image at least 24 hours before an abortion procedure.

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“What’s most interesting here,” Carvalho said, is that “the extremes are really outliers. When they advocate for their positions and change the debate toward the most extreme position on the issue, they actually do the opposite. They move public opinion away from them.”

The more vocal advocates on either side, however, have had the ability to shift the debate and public opinion to their point of view. Consider that many of the specific items above, at one point or another, have been hotly debated.

When does life begin?

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Trump Administration Restricts Federal Research Involving Human Fetal Tissue

On requiring insurance companies to cover abortion procedures, 75% of Democratic women support that, while 78% of Republican women oppose it, higher than the 63% of Republican men who said the same.

Republican women also stand out for the 62% of them who said they oppose laws that allow abortion at any time during pregnancy in cases of rape or incest. They are the only group to voice majority opposition to that. Fifty-nine percent of Republican men, for example, said they would support such a law.

And Republican women are the only group to say overwhelmingly that life begins at conception. About three-quarters said so, compared with less than half of Republican men and a third of Democratic women.

It’s a reminder that Republican women, in many ways, are the backbone of the movement opposing abortion rights.

The survey of 944 adults was conducted by live interviewers by telephone from May 31 through June 4. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Editor’s note: The survey asked respondents to identify as either “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” This question wording, using the labels “pro-life” and “pro-choice,” was included in the survey because it has tracked the public debate on abortion over decades. It is sensitive to current events and public discussion even though it does not capture the nuanced positions many people have on the issue.

Supreme Court Upholds Indiana Provision Mandating Fetal Burial Or Cremation

In the case of self-identification, 60% of independents identified as “pro-choice.” Asked which party would do a better job of dealing with the issue of abortion, a plurality of Americans overall chose Democrats over Republicans .

Independents chose Democrats on the question of which party would do a better job by an 11-point margin .

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Asked if they’d be more likely to support state laws that decriminalize abortion and make laws less strict or ones that do the opposite, 60% of Americans overall, including two-thirds of independents, chose laws that decriminalize abortion and are less strict.

What specifically do Americans support and oppose?

The poll also asked a long series of questions to try to figure out what Americans support or oppose when it comes to potential changes to abortion laws pending in several states. Poll respondents were not told which states these proposals come from.

Supreme Court Decisions On Abortion And Guns Could Shake Up 2022 Election

Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON — The most conservative Supreme Court in nearly a century could deliver two major decisions on abortion and gun rights that pack a political punch just months before next year’s elections.

Democrats are bracing for the court’s 6-3 conservative majority to deliver potentially blockbuster defeats but are already preparing to try to turn the losses into victories at the ballot box. Democrats are betting on polling trends that show that Americans support Roe v. Wade and tougher gun laws, especially in the vital and fluid suburbs.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, the campaign chair tasked with defending Democrats’ House majority, said Republicans “may live to regret it” if the Supreme Court majority they built reverses Roe.

“Anybody who understands how important reproductive freedom is would be outraged by overturning 50 years of settled law. It would be terrible for the country. And I think there would be a price to pay,” Maloney said. “People who contribute to that should be held accountable.”

Historical trends favor Republicans in the battle for the House and the Senate next year. The last two presidents suffered heavy losses for their parties in the first midterm elections. Democrats, who rely on a base of younger and nonwhite voters, tend to have sharper drop-offs in turnout when they control the White House.

“Turnout, turnout, turnout!” said Tyler Law, who was an aide to the House Democrats’ campaign arm in 2018.

Families Say Athletic Bans Would Exact Toll On Rural Transgender Youth

Lawmakers in more than two dozen states are debating transgender athletic bans.

Oakley said one of the most sweeping laws was in Arkansas, which enacted a statute that prohibits trans youth from accessing surgery or hormonal treatment for gender transition. The bill was vetoed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, but the veto was overridden by the GOP-led legislature. A court injunction has prevented the law from taking effect, and the legal wrangling has just begun.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, at first vetoed a bill that would have banned transgender women and girls from female high school sports. But under pressure from the right, Noem, who may be considering a presidential run, backtracked and issued an executive order to impose the ban.

Oakley suggested that as gay, lesbian and transgender people become more accepted by Americans, and same-sex marriage is legal across the country, anti-gay lawmakers are looking for other sexual identity-based issues to confront.

“It’s harder to get people swept up in anti-LGBT rhetoric,” she said in a phone interview.

“Opinion is favoring not only LGBT folks but also trans folks as well.” Therefore, she said, the attention has turned to trans kids.

“The problem is the rhetoric: ‘Every trans girl who wants to play sports is taking an opportunity away from a cis girl who wants to play sports.’” Not true, she said.

Republicans Abhor Abortions Unless Its For Their Mistress Of Course

Meet Scott Lloyd, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement; in theory he’s responsible for supporting refugees build a better life in America by providing them with financial and medical assistance. Under previous administrations, this included abortion services. But we live in a God-fearing America now, and Lloyd has made it his mission to ensure refugee women, including unaccompanied minors, don’t get abortions. He even blocked a 17-year-old-girl who had been raped from having an abortion. “The child – the one who is destroyed – is not an aggressor,” he argued in a report. No Scott, the child isn’t an aggressor; you are.

As Mother Jones reported this week, despite his patronizing proselytizing, Lloyd doesn’t always practice what he preaches. As a young man he drove an ex-girlfriend to get an abortion and paid for half of it.

Lloyd joins an illustrious list of Republicans whose stance on abortion is basically: “It’s OK for me; evil for thee.” Earlier this year, for example, it emerged that Elliot Broidy, the former RNC deputy finance chairman paid $1.6m to a Playboy Playmate he had an affair with, after she aborted his child.

Republicans Employ New Extremely Aggressive Tactics To Ban Abortion

Bills that ban abortion and punish women and doctors under murder statutes have shown up in state legislatures recently

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At a church-style rally in Arizona, the state Republican lawmaker Walter Blackman described his “perfect” legislative proposal: to prosecute women who have abortions for homicide alongside the doctors who provide them.

Such a bill would be patently unconstitutional in the US – but for anti-abortion rights activists like Blackman that’s the point.

“We are not going to amend this bill,” Blackman said in January. “This is a perfect bill. I just want to tell you that now.” Nine of Blackman’s colleagues .

The bill was just one of nine more Arizona bills designed to ban, restrict or undermine abortion rights – ranging from funding religious crisis pregnancy clinics which oppose abortion to banning abortion at six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant.

“It’s nothing less than appalling,” said Dr Julia Kwatra, an obstetrician and gynecologist who has practiced in Scottsdale for 20 years. “This is just representing a full frontal assault on women’s healthcare in Arizona this legislative session.”

Abortion restrictions investigate the outer limits of that right, by creating laws that provoke reproductive rights advocates to sue, and for courts to consider their legitimacy.

These bans don’t come out of nowhere. They are the result of a sustained campaign from anti-abortion politicians

Abortion Laws Give Republican Politicians What They Crave Control

Somehow, even though Roe v. Wade has been in place for 46 years, and even though the majority of Americans believe abortion should be legal, and even though the data is clear that criminalizing abortion is not an effective and safe way to reduce abortions, we are still on the brink of witnessing abortion rights in America disappear.

Just last week, more than 200 mostly white male members of Congress submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court advocating for the reconsideration and repeal of Roe v. Wade.

This is because it never was, and never will be, about sound policy for them. Instead, it is about what keeps politicians in power. Abortion is simply the vehicle that gives Republican politicians what they crave — control.

And right now, it is delivering.

As conservative states make increasingly brazen moves to ban abortion, the internet is flooded with heart-wrenching stories from women trying desperately to convey why abortion access is so important. Women who wanted a child but were told it would not live. Women who want to live but were told having a child would kill them.

Women who maintain what is becoming) a radical belief that they, not the government, are best suited to make decisions about their bodies. Advocates of reproductive rights work tirelessly to convey the nuance of the circumstances, the horrors of criminalization, the extremism of forced birth, all in hopes that the other side will come around.

They will not.

Don’t let this be our fate.

Republicans Messaging On Abortion Puts Democrats On The Defensive

May 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — With grisly claims that Democrats promote “birth day abortions” and are “the party of death,” the Republican Party and its conservative allies have aggressively reset the terms of one of the country’s most divisive and emotionally fraught debates, forcing Democrats to reassess how they should respond to attacks and distortions that portray the entire party as extremist on abortion.

The unusually forceful, carefully coordinated campaign has created challenges that Democrats did not expect as they struggle to combat misinformation and thwart further efforts to undercut access to abortion. And advocates of abortion rights fear it is succeeding in pressuring lawmakers in more conservative states to pass severe new restrictions, as Alabama did this week by approving a bill that would essentially outlaw the procedure.

These new measures, combined with the likelihood that the Supreme Court will agree to take up at least one case in the coming months where Roe v. Wade will be tested, have stirred intense passions on both sides and elevated abortion into a prominent issue in the presidential race.

Initially, many Democrats and abortion rights groups believed that the notion was so absurd that it was not worth responding to it. But they discovered that was a dangerous assumption to make in an information environment dominated by Mr. Trump.

“No,” she added, “we’re defining what they believe.”

“Whoever sets the frame,” she continued, “wins the debate.”

From 2018: Majority Of Americans Don’t Want Roe V Wade Overturned

Politically, abortion has been a stronger voting issue for Republicans than for Democrats. This poll found that abortion ranks as the second-most-important issue for Republicans in deciding their vote for president, behind immigration. But for Democrats, it is fifth — behind health care, America’s role in the world, climate change and personal financial well-being.

The poll also notably found the highest percentage of people self-identifying as “pro-choice,” those who generally support abortion rights, since a Gallup survey in December 2012. In this survey, 57% identified that way versus 35%, who called themselves “pro-life,” those who are generally opposed to abortion rights.

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The percentage self-identifying as “pro-choice” is an increase since a Marist Poll in February, when the two sides split with 47% each. The pollsters attribute that shift to efforts in various states to severely restrict abortion.

“The public is very reactive to the arguments being put forth by the more committed advocates on both sides of the issue,” Carvalho said, adding, “The danger for Republicans is that when you look at independents, independents are moving more toward Democrats on this issue. … When the debate starts overstepping what public opinion believes to be common sense, we’ve seen independents moving in Democrats’ corner.”

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Trump, meanwhile, wants Roe v. Wade overturned and has said he only supports abortion rights in cases of rape, incest or protecting a mother’s life. If he is reelected, he almost certainly will have a chance to name at least one conservative justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, possibly overturning the decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.

Figuring out how important abortion is to the electorate as a whole depends on which polls you look at — and how you ask the question.

“If you ask about the most important issue facing the country in comparison with issues like the pandemic, jobs and the economy, health care, our educational system, abortion barely registers,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.

As of August, less than 0.5% of Americans told Gallup that they consider abortion the most important problem in America.

But then, abortion is a top priority to far more voters. Fully 40% of voters see abortion as “very important” to their vote, according to a summer poll from Pew. That puts it well behind nearly a dozen other issues, but nevertheless shows its importance to a huge number of Americans.

One way to look at it is that abortion doesn’t function for many voters as an issue in the way the economy does. Because many conservative Christian voters talk about seeing abortion as wrong because of their religious beliefs, abortion is closely tied to their core identity.

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A Republican Theme On Abortions: ‘it’s Ok For Me Evil For Thee’

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Promote Adoption & Abstinence Not Abortion Clinic Referrals

Each year more than three million American teenagers contract sexually transmitted diseases, causing emotional harm and serious health consequences, even death. We support efforts to educate teens and parents aboutthe health risks associated with early sexual activity and provide the tools needed to help teens make healthy choices. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexuallytransmitted diseases, including sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS. Therefore, we support doubling abstinence education funding. We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for contraception and abortion.

2004 Republican Party Platform, p. 82-83

Both Sides Still Tried To Appeal To The Center For A While

Even after the parties began to move apart on the issue, activists on both sides tried to appeal to the center, as Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University who studies the history of the abortion debate, wrote recently at the Washington Post. In the 1990s and early 2000s, for instance, many abortion opponents devoted their energy to supporting incremental restrictions, like a ban on dilation and extraction, a technique for abortions later in pregnancy that opponents called “partial-birth abortion.” The restriction, which was eventually passed at the federal level in 2003, is far less sweeping than the “heartbeat” bills many Republican lawmakers favor today, which would ban abortions as early as six weeks.

Democrats, meanwhile, could be somewhat equivocal on abortion during this time period, with Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign famously saying that abortions should be “safe, legal, and rare.” Hillary Clinton used the same language in her 2008 presidential campaign.

But more recently, both sides of the abortion debate have come to seek broader change. Among abortion-rights supporters, there’s been an increasing awareness of reproductive justice.The term, coined in 1994, describes an approach focused not just on the legal right to an abortion, but on safe, affordable access to a range of reproductive health care, as well as the ability to parent children safely.

Government Is Not The Solution To Domestic Social Problems

This is pretty universal among Republicans. Government should not be providing solutions to problems that confront people . Those problems should be solved by the people themselves. A Republican would say that relying on the government to solve problems is a crutch that makes people lazy and feel entitled to receive things without working for them.

Religion And The Belief In God Is Vital To A Strong Nation

Republicans are generally accepting only of the Judeo-Christian belief system. For most Republicans, religion is absolutely vital in their political beliefs and the two cannot be separated. Therefore, separation of church and state is not that important to them. In fact, they believe that much of what is wrong has been caused by too much secularism.

Those are the four basic Republican tenets: small government, local control, the power of free markets, and Christian authority. Below are other things they believe that derive from those four ideas.

What Data Says About Americans’ Support Of Abortion Rights

Various polls and studies have asked Americans how they feel about abortion since the mid-1970s. Typically, these polls ask participants whether they identify as “pro-life” or “pro-choice” as well as whether they think abortion should be legal in all cases, in some/certain cases, or not at all. For this project, we honed in specifically on the legality question because, while a person can call themselves “pro-life” or “pro-choice” , that identification doesn’t always match up with what a person thinks should be law.

That being said, there is some nuance to be considered when using legality to judge how people view abortion, says Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health . “How many of us walk around in the world, thinking about, you know, the state of legality of most things?” she asks. “People think about in the context of their lives and the context of the people they know.” There is also a lot of variation in where people fall in the “legal in most/some cases” category. For example, while someone might not think abortion should be illegal outright, they might feel that there should be restrictions on who can provide abortions or where and when they can be performed. That technically puts them in the same category as someone who is generally supportive of abortion being legal but may be uncomfortable with the idea of someone getting an abortion in the third trimester.

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Trump jumped on the issue: “Ithought it was terrible,” Trump said of Tran’s remarks. “Do you remember when I said Hillary Clinton was willing to rip the baby out of the womb? That’s what it is. That’s what they’re doing. It’s terrible.”

“The Democratic Party has become soextreme they are now openly supporting the murder of newborn babies,” Camille Gallo, spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee said last week after Democrats in Virginia pushed to loosen restrictions on abortions later in pregnancy.

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Finally, Republicans are saying what they have always meant about abortion: They want to make it illegal for everyone all the time, full stop.

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“I’m a mother. I birthed three children,” she said. “And the feeling of life in me is real at conception.”

Two hundred miles away from Oconomowoc, in Cresco, Iowa, farmer William Goetch stood chatting with a friend outside a grocery store on a sweltering August day.

Goetch farms just outside of Cresco, in an area that voted solidly for President Obama in 2012 and then for solidly for Trump in 2016. I asked Goetch if he, too, could ever be a swing voter.

“No, I couldn’t be. Just mostly because the issue of abortion,” he said, noting that he doesn’t like Democrat Joe Biden’s support of abortion rights.

His friend, John Whelan, said he’s undecided on who he’ll support. But listening to Goetch, Whelan said that he thinks abortion might sway his vote, as well.

“You hear the abortion thing — that’s kind of a big thing for being Catholic. So that could be the final straw,” he said.

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On requiring insurance companies to cover abortion procedures, 75% of Democratic women support that, while 78% of Republican women oppose it, higher than the 63% of Republican men who said the same.

It’s a reminder that Republican women, in many ways, are the backbone of the movement opposing abortion rights.

The survey of 944 adults was conducted by live interviewers by telephone from May 31 through June 4. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

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Independents chose Democrats on the question of which party would do a better job by an 11-point margin .

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“Turnout, turnout, turnout!” said Tyler Law, who was an aide to the House Democrats’ campaign arm in 2018.

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Lawmakers in more than two dozen states are debating transgender athletic bans.

“It’s harder to get people swept up in anti-LGBT rhetoric,” she said in a phone interview.

“Opinion is favoring not only LGBT folks but also trans folks as well.” Therefore, she said, the attention has turned to trans kids.

“The problem is the rhetoric: ‘Every trans girl who wants to play sports is taking an opportunity away from a cis girl who wants to play sports.’” Not true, she said.

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Such a bill would be patently unconstitutional in the US – but for anti-abortion rights activists like Blackman that’s the point.

“We are not going to amend this bill,” Blackman said in January. “This is a perfect bill. I just want to tell you that now.” Nine of Blackman’s colleagues .

Abortion restrictions investigate the outer limits of that right, by creating laws that provoke reproductive rights advocates to sue, and for courts to consider their legitimacy.

These bans don’t come out of nowhere. They are the result of a sustained campaign from anti-abortion politicians

Abortion Laws Give Republican Politicians What They Crave Control

Just last week, more than 200 mostly white male members of Congress submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court advocating for the reconsideration and repeal of Roe v. Wade.

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“No,” she added, “we’re defining what they believe.”

“Whoever sets the frame,” she continued, “wins the debate.”

From 2018: Majority Of Americans Don’t Want Roe V Wade Overturned

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As of August, less than 0.5% of Americans told Gallup that they consider abortion the most important problem in America.

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Those are the four basic Republican tenets: small government, local control, the power of free markets, and Christian authority. Below are other things they believe that derive from those four ideas.

What Data Says About Americans’ Support Of Abortion Rights

Oped: Democrats Now Openly Support The Murder Of Newborns

USA Today fact-check on 2019 State of the Union speech

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