Margaret Talbot writes on how, in the nearly two years since the Dobbs decision, Republican-led efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters—and become a problem for Donald Trump.
Maybe the most persuasive factor is simply the realization that a bedrock decision about such intimate and life-altering matters could be wrested away by the state. According to a new survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, a majority of adults in most states, including those where abortion is now effectively banned, say that the practice should be legal in all or most cases. That includes seventy per cent of blue-state residents and fifty-seven per cent of red-state ones.
As Murray and Shaw point out, there is some rich irony here: the majority that declared itself so committed to the democratic process where abortion was concerned has been busily undermining it in a series of cases curtailing the scope of the Voting Rights Act and allowing gerrymandering. Yet the version of democracy that many of Roe’s critics invoked was, it turns out, limited. Dobbs also triggered a citizen-organized ballot-initiative movement.
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