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What is your stance on abortion?

Abortion is a medical procedure resulting in the termination of a human pregnancy and death of a fetus. Abortion was banned in 30 states until the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. The ruling made abortion legal in all 50 states but gave them regulatory powers over when abortions could be performed during a pregnancy. Currently, all states must allow abortions early in pregnancies but may ban them in later trimesters.

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94%
Pro-choice
6%
Pro-life
85%
Pro-choice
4%
Pro-life
6%
Pro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions
2%
Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child
2%
Pro-choice, but ban after the first three months
0%
Pro-life, and I also oppose abortion for victims of rape and incest
1%
Pro-choice, I don’t agree but the government has no right to ban it

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 @9PL885Mfrom Georgia  answered…5mos5MO

Pro-choice but abortion banned after 22 weeks (except in cases of death of the mother rape or incest)

 @9KC2GKFfrom Illinois  answered…9mos9MO

allow in cases for rape, incest, or danger to mother oc hild, otherwise let each district decide for itself by holding a direct ballot initiative

 @9JLCRR7from Illinois  answered…10mos10MO

pro choice for first 3 months then let each region decide for themselves by a direct ballot initiative

 @8R37YHWanswered…4yrs4Y

The government should not be making decisions on when abortion is appropriate.

 @98DWB9Ganswered…2yrs2Y

Pro-life, but allow in cases of severe danger to the mother.

 @93QSZL5answered…2yrs2Y

Pro-life somewhat, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions and also for popularizing that idea through convincing people rather than banning abortions

 @932SPX5answered…3yrs3Y

Pro life and providing birth control, sex education and more social services will help reduce number of abortions. Allow abortion until two Months or if mother's life in danger.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…1mo1MO

Kamala’s Warning: ‘Unhinged’ Trump Seeks Dictatorial Power in 2024

Kamala Harris has attacked Donald Trump for seeking “unchecked power” if he wins the White House again, placing what she described as his threat to American democracy at the heart of her closing argument to voters less than two weeks before the presidential election.In a rare statement from the vice-president’s residence in Washington on Wednesday, Harris attacked Trump for being “increasingly unhinged and unstable” and said there would be no “guardrails” to restrain him during a second term in office.Harris’s comments were a reaction to comments in The New York Times from John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, who said the ex-president was an “authoritarian” who admired Adolf Hitler and fell into the “general definition of fascist”.“The bottom line is this: We know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. The question in 13 days will be, what do the American people want?” Harris said in her brief remarks.The Democratic candidate was speaking before heading to Pennsylvania for a televised town hall on CNN, while Trump was campaigning in GeorgiaThe Trump campaign rubbished Harris’s comments as “desperate” and “easily disproven”.Polls put the two candidates in one of the tightest White House races in recent memory, leaving both vying for a closing message that wins crucial undecided voters.While President Joe Biden frequently referred to Trump as a threat to democracy before ending his re-election bid in July, Harris’s pitch had focused instead on defending personal freedoms, such as abortion, and economic benefits for the middle class, often dismissing Trump as unserious and bizarre.

 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2wks2W

Republican Heartland Embraces Abortion Rights Amid National Fight

Voters in seven states approved ballot amendments establishing a right to abortion in their state constitutions, continuing a broad repudiation of the abortion bans enacted since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.Missouri, which was the first state to officially enact an abortion ban after Roe was overturned in 2022, became the first state where voters ended a ban at the ballot box, with 52 percent approving the measure. A similar amendment passed by 57 percent in Montana, another Republican-controlled state. In two battleground states, Nevada and Arizona, measures to enshrine a right to abortion passed, with more than 60 percent of the vote for each.But the abortion rights movement also hit its limits, stalling in what had been a winning streak on ballot measures post-Roe, as voters in three Republican-controlled states, Florida, South Dakota and Nebraska, rejected amendments that would have established a constitutional right to abortion.Even as they hailed their victories, abortion rights supporters warned that the second Trump administration could use federal power to essentially invalidate the new state-level protections.President-elect Donald J. Trump boasted on the campaign trail of having overturned Roe — he appointed the three justices who helped swing the court majority. And anti-abortion activists have laid plans for a second Trump administration to use existing federal statutes to ban abortion pills, and to use the 14th Amendment to establish fetal personhood, which would effectively criminalize abortion at any stage of pregnancy. A Republican-controlled Congress could look to pass a federal abortion ban.Opponents of abortion rights looked at the results and saw victory. “Supported by the abortion industry and its allies, Harris and Walz campaigned with fanatical fervor on abortion — and the voters rejected them,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.And Democrats who hoped that support for ballot measures would also lift their candidates to victory were largely disappointed.The groups backing the winning measures, however, said the victories even in states that went solidly for Mr. Trump were a clear signal that most Americans, regardless of party, age or gender, do not want the government restricting abortion.Republican Heartland Embraces Abortion Rights Amid National Fight

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