Democrats are overreaching in their defence of abortion rights
They could blow a chance to enthuse mid-term voters
Are democrats blowing the chance that the probable overturning of Roe v Wade has given them? The revelation this month that the Supreme Court has voted, at least provisionally, to strike down the ruling that in 1973 declared abortion a constitutional right has provided the party with a rare opportunity to energise voters ahead of mid-term elections in November. Most Americans do not want Roe to go.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Outrage and outliers”
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