Democrats are pissed
Biden took some action this morning. It’s a start:
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday aimed at protecting abortion rights in response to the landmark decision by the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
The President said the order will safeguard access to abortion care and contraceptives, protect patient privacy and establish an interagency task force to use “every federal tool available to protect access to reproductive health care.”
It will also increase public education efforts and bolster the security of and the legal options available to those seeking and providing abortion services, according to a fact sheet provided by the White House.
Biden laid out a hypothetical scenario, one that he believes to be more likely after the court’s ruling, to explain the stakes.
“A patient comes into an emergency room in any state in the union, she is … experiencing a life-threatening miscarriage, but the doctor is going to be so concerned about being criminalized for treating her they delay treatment to call the hospital lawyer, who’s concerned the hospital will be penalized if the doctor provides the life-saving care,” Biden said, speaking from the White House.
“It’s outrageous. I don’t care what your position is, it’s outrageous and it’s dangerous,” Biden said.
Lake Research did a poll for Move On in the swing states. It’s not good news for Republicans:
Electorates in battleground states lean heavily in support of abortion rights. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade runs counter to public sentiment in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin where, like many states, access to safe, legal abortions – among other aspects of people’s reproductive healthcare – could cease to exist in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision. This is key to picking up swing voters. In all four states, more voters identify as pro-choice than identify as Democrats.
A majority of voters in each state reported that overturning Roe makes them very motivated to vote in November (pre-the June 24 Supreme Court decision), including 59% of voters in Arizona, 52% in Georgia, 63% in Pennsylvania, and 54% in Wisconsin. Just the threat of overturning Roe was even more motivating to voters than the possibility of abortion bans, the future of which had yet to be determined at the time the survey was conducted. Fiftytwo percent (52%) of Arizona voters, 55% percent of Georgia voters, 56% of Pennsylvania voters, and 48% are Wisconsin voters are very motivated to turn out in November in response to abortion bans.
Democrats are mobilizing in support of abortion rights in battleground states. Even before the Supreme Court announced its decision on Roe, upwards of seven in ten Democrats in every state professed being very motivated to vote in November in response to a forthcoming decision to overturn Roe or state-level abortion bans2. Democrats and pro-choice voters are mobilizing to turn out in November in response to abortion laws in significantly higher numbers than Republicans or voters who oppose abortion in each state.
