It’s been three days since the lopsidedly conservative United States Supreme Court ruled that people don’t have a federal right to reproductive health care. While Democratic lawmakers have largely — but not exclusively — bungled their response to the Court’s seismic overturning of the nearly 50-year precedent established by 1973’s Roe v. Wade, a new poll released Monday suggests that the party’s base is already looking ahead to the midterm elections with a renewed sense of urgency and purpose.
According to a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National poll conducted in the days following the Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a significant majority of the United States not only opposes the move to strike down Roe, but is newly motivated to vote this coming November as a result. All told, 56% of the country disagrees with the decision, with 45% of that bloc indicating they “strongly” oppose the decision. Similar margins of respondents also said they believed the Court’s ruling was politically motivated, and will likely put other rights, such as same-sex marriage and access to contraceptives, in jeopardy.
