70% of americans do NOT want roe v. wade overturned

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http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/21/16626932-nbcwsj-poll-majority-for-first-time-want-abortion-to-be-legal?lite


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As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision takes place on Tuesday, a majority of Americans – for the first time – believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
What’s more, seven in 10 respondents oppose Roe v. Wade being overturned, which is the highest percentage on this question since 1989.
“These are profound changes,” says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart and his colleagues.

[ProSense]

1. On Roe anniversary, support for reproductive rights grows (chart)

On Roe anniversary, support for reproductive rights grows

By Steve Benen



Exactly 40 years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade ruling. In a 7-2 decision, the court majority decided that Americans have a constitutional right to privacy, which includes being able to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

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I put together the chart shown above, showing the results of polling from the last quarter-century on the Roe ruling. Though a majority of Americans have consistently opposed overturning the decision, note the trend lines -- support for Roe keeps growing.

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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/01/22/16641410-on-roe-anniversary-support-for-reproductive-rights-grows

[Hekate]

2. It looks like 70% of Americans finally see the anti-choice agenda for what it really is...

It's anti-woman. It treats women as nothing more than incubators, and babies after they are born as unworthy of government help or attention. And it is anti-birth control.

Thinking and talking about abortion makes people uncomfortable, which they exploit ad nauseum. But contraception is a right that women take so for granted that most could not even imagine in their wildest dreams that an entire movement would be devoted to taking that away from us.

I think that must finally have sunk in.

And possibly also there may finally be enough women who admit to themselves that they, or their sister, or mother or friend really have gone down to that clinic for an abortion, and that it is not some abstract stranger who is being attacked. Also, what is legal is no longer obtainable in most counties in the country, thanks to the fanatics and their violent tactics.

One reason Roe vs. Wade came about the way it did was that abortion was in fact very common -- not legal, not safe, very harrowing to obtain -- but still a common fact of life. I have read that hospitals in the old days had basically two types of wards for women: maternity, and septic. And that not long after Roe, the septic wards closed down.

As the issue of abortion wends its way back to the Supreme Court, I wonder who among the Catholics on that bench is going to be able to separate their church from our state? Certainly not Scalia, but could some other conservative be persuadable? Could we actually be safer than we thought?

[CTyankee]

3. but, but...today on Morning Joe, Scar said more people than ever are pro-life!

Izzat so, Joe? Lookie here...

[cali]

4. when can we stop pretending that women in this country have freedom of choice

under Roe? It's been so undermined over the past 3 decades that large numbers of women most assuredly do not.

[LisaLynne]

5. Yeah, doesn't matter if it's legal if ...

people have killed or driven out all the doctors in your area.