access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the
wondering what will the front pages say in another 49 years? will we be in the same conversation? one difference between 1973 and today is real time data. searches for abortion were especially high this week in areas like madison, wisconsin, kansas city, missouri, and salt lake city, utah. areas where the procedure is now banned. this weekend google searches for the question, can i get an abortion are over indexing in those states where it is now illegal. missouri, wisconsin, kentucky, arkansas, oklahoma all the top of the google trends data. axios reports that the top queries related to abortion right now include, is it illegal? abortion banned states, and abortion pill. searches for abortion pill are highest right now in red states including some that have already banned abortion and others likely to follow. so this data is important. it provides an insight into what people are searching for in the privacy of their own homes and it is buttressed by local reporting showing i
with very expansive abortion rights that allow abortion for any reason until very late in pregnancy. it is just very hard to see in our current polarized environment how the united states gets to a political reality, to a legal reality that reflects that kind of compromise consensus view we see in other countries and that we also see in the american public at large. such a great point. how to reflect the majority or plurality of the country in the center and moderate on a lot of these issues. that was terrific. thank you so much. next up foreign policy panel about all kinds of things russia, ukraine, israel, saudi arabia. when we come back. and i get seven days to love it or my money back. i love it! [laughs] we ll drdrive you happy at carvana.
with, you know, where to set that limit. does it seem to you, i look at chuck schumer s proposal that abortion is to be allowed for even longer than roe. looking at other countries, does the success come if you present yourself as understanding there is a need for compromise or is it bet tower go hard and get your constituent? i think it is hard to know because obviously the political and legal history of these other countries is different. it is certainly the case that the kind of laws we see in europe, which say you can have an abortion for any reason early in pregnancy, then later in pregnancy if you have a health reason, some severe socio economic problem or something like that, that is where we really see american public opinion in general, about two-thirds of americans, and this has been very stable for many decades, support abortion in those kinds of circumstances. they want there to be some kind of right to abortion but they are in many cases uncomfortable
protection. it is also true that the united states allows abortions up to about 24 weeks, which is pretty a longer time period than most countries. fair, not fair. give us a sense of the outline. well, i think that would have been fair as of a couple days ago but because of the new supreme court decision we no longer have a constitutional right to abortion in the united states so these decisions about when abortions will be allowed have been left to state legislatures, potentially to congress. i think that does make it more like other countries of the world. there are some countries where courts have gotten involved and there have been constitutional rulings about reproductive rights but for many countries especially in europe these have been legislative matters. we ve seen countries decide with their parmts what they want their abortion laws to be. it is technically correct the united states was unusual in having a very expansive abortion right prior to this decision but