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Sam Levine in New York

Republicans keep passing extreme anti-abortion bans without popular support. Here’s why

Demonstrators attend the Planned Parenthood 'Bans Off Our Bodies' day of action protest, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 14 May.
Demonstrators attend the Planned Parenthood 'Bans Off Our Bodies' day of action protest, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 14 May. Photograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Hello, and happy Thursday,

As states have passed a wave of increasingly extreme abortion restrictions in recent years, a sort of puzzling contradiction has emerged. The American public broadly supports the right to an abortion, public polling has shown, yet politicians who pass these controversial restrictions are consistently re-elected. Why is that?

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