John – You’d never know it if you asked Republicans, but abortion rights are incredibly popular.
Recent polls show that 85% (some say as much as 90%) of ALL Americans believe abortion should remain legal, and only 13% believe it should be outlawed completely.
But Republicans have never let the fact their ideas are wildly unpopular get in the way of how they legislate.
Texas was one of the first states in the wake of the Dobbs decision (which struck down Roe v Wade) to have a near-total abortion ban cemented into state law.
Today, abortion in Texas is a felony punishable by up to life in prison – with only very narrow exceptions concerning the life of the pregnant person.
They did this despite the fact that 60 percent of Texas voters believe abortion should remain legal in “all or most cases,” and only 11 percent of Texans believe it should be banned ENTIRELY.