President Joe Biden is encouraging voters to send pro-choice legislators to Congress to counter the Supreme Court’s indicated overturning of Roe v. Wade. But Biden and his Democratic colleagues are going to be in for a wake-up call if they think abortion will save their majority.
Democrats think they enjoy the popular stance on abortion, even as they move to oppose every single law that mildly inconveniences the abortion industry. But abortion has no popular support after the first trimester of pregnancy. Democrats can’t even bring themselves to support a ban on abortion after 20 weeks, and indeed, many are in favor of simply lifting all abortion restrictions, even while the majority of the country thinks abortion should be illegal after 13 weeks.
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