Democrats are losing the younger generation on the abortion issue

James Robbins:

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Perhaps more alarming for the Democrats is that younger people moved in greater proportion towards the pro-life position than older age cohorts. And a May 2019 Hill-HarrisXsurvey found that 55% of those polled found a Georgia-style six-week abortion ban either “just right” or “too lenient.” Again, broken down by age group, it was those aged 18-34 who “were most likely to say the abortion bans did not go far enough.”

So rather than benefiting Democrats, the new battle over abortion may be a replay of the 2003 debate over “partial birth abortion” which benefited George W. Bush in his reelection bid. Democrats have predictably denounced the new restrictive abortion laws while showing no signs of being willing to accept any particular time limits on terminating pregnancies. For his part, President Trump has criticized the Alabama abortion law for going too far while also strongly denouncing New York’s highly permissive approach. Advantage Trump.

Meanwhile the Supreme Court will be able to monitor a variety of lower-court challenges to these new laws which will in time give the justices an opportunity to select the specific case or cases they might use to rewrite Roe. At which point Democrats will have to be “kept comfortable” while the decision is reached whether or not to terminate it.

The "kept comfortable" phrase is the one used by Virginia governor to explain how people would be able to terminate a live birth resulting from an attempted abortion.  His statements and those of New York officials who also would permit abortions while the baby was in the birth canal horrified much of the nation.  Texas is now considering a law to protect the life of a baby who survives an abortion attempt.

Data also shows that only 1 percent of abortions are because of rape and .5 percent are the results of incest.

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Debate over the exceptions has dominated headlines and ignited Twitter wars. But Mary Ziegler, a professor at Florida State University College of Law who specializes in the legal history of reproduction, says exceptions for rape and incest are much more "symbolic than they are relevant," given that they don't apply to the majority of women having abortions. She said abortion opponents have never felt these exceptions were justified, but they were long seen as a political third rail. Now the anti-abortion movement is betting that's no longer the case.
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