True colours How abortion focused white evangelical anger
Dec 10, 2021
3 minutes
By Jessica Glenza
Public opinion on abortion in the US has changed little since 1973, when the supreme court in effect legalised the procedure nationally in its ruling on the case Roe v Wade. According to Gallup, which has the longest-running poll on the issue, about four in five Americans believe abortion should be legal, at least in some circumstances.
Yet the politics of abortion have opened deep divisions in the last five decades. In 2021, state legislators have passed dozens of restrictions to abortion
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