Trump’s evangelical cabal are behind Republican attacks on women’s reproductive rights.
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The recent debate over “late-term abortion,” fueled by state measures in New York and Virginia that loosened, or sought to loosen, abortion restrictions toward the end of a woman’s pregnancy, has caused “a dramatic shift” in public attitudes toward abortion policy, according to Barbara Carvalho who directed a new Marist poll, commissioned by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization.
By the numbers: The poll found Americans are now as likely to identify as pro-life (47%) as they are pro-choice (47%). Last month, a similar Marist survey found that Americans were more likely to identify as pro-choice than pro-life 55% to 38%, a 17-point gap.
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No surprise that the change in attitude is from people too young to remember having lost a family member or peer to a botched illegal abortion or later term medical complications where the dying fetus can’t be removed due to legal restrictions with no medical basis. People aren’t being presented with accurate medical information on human development and fall easy prey to the cute baby fantasies until they know someone–maybe themselves–who needs medical intervention to save their lives, general health, or reproductive health and find that it is legally not available or prohibitively expensive to travel to get medical care. Catholic hospitals don’t say up front what services they refuse to provide or that they will automatically choose to save the life of the baby over the mother if a choice needs to be made–no matter what the woman wants. My own mother always started the story of my birth with, “I made sure the doctor wasn’t Catholic (the only large religious organization that opposed saving the life of the mother at the time).” because her own aunt had died from a septic pregnancy, and she was terrified of dying in childbirth.