• thetaT [none/use name]
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    6 days ago

    being anti-abortion used to also be pretty unpopular. but when conservative leadership needs something new to demonize, the conservative public are quick to turn...

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      5 days ago

      Ian’t a complete blanket ban of abortion still unpopular? Didn’t the republicans lose several elections because of it?

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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        5 days ago

        It's unpopular now, but historically party stances were somewhat reversed, e.g.

        In 1972, a Gallop poll showed that Americans were united in their opinion about abortion: 68% of Republicans and 59% of Democrats agreed that “the decision to have an abortion should be made solely by a woman and her physician.”