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shut down, in some cases, doctors stopped performing what had been routine medical care out of fear of litigation or imprisonment, leaving some women with life altering conditions and scarring, both physical and emotional. on the broad end, more than 25 million women of child bearing age from 14 to 44 live in states where it is hard or impossible to get full reproductive care. millions more say those restrictions and bans go too far. by more than a two to one ratio, voters say abortion access across the country has become too difficult, rather than too easy. when put directly to the people, abortion access has largely been a winning issue. we ve seen it time and time again. but when left to state lawmakers, buffeted by the safety of their gerrymandered districts, that access has been rolled back systematically. do those truths hold? how long will abortion be a motivating issue. and are those districts really all that safe when the vast majority of women and most men say ....
The polling that nbc news came out with today shows why this is going to be a thorny issue. even in the republican primary itself. yes, in this audience, this crowd of conservative religious voters, they want to hear a consistently anti-abortion message. nevertheless when you get to the general election, the way this manifests with women and independent voters, it becomes difficult for republican candidates who are in some ways out of step with what the national polling tells us. we ask the question up top, do those truths hold, abortion was an animating issue for voters in special elections, we saw voters in a red state make sure that it was enshrined in the constitution. when it s put to voters, we have seen abortion access be a winning issue. we have seen lawmakers in red places, in safe red districts roll back abortion access. do those truths still hold going forward? will it still be an animating issue, and are those districts where those republican lawmakers came from still saf ....
Shut down, in some cases, doctors stopped performing what had been routine medical care out of fear of litigation or imprisonment, leaving some women with life altering conditions and scarring, both physical and emotional. on the broad end, more than 25 million women of child bearing age from 14 to 44 live in states where it is hard or impossible to get full reproductive care. millions more say those restrictions and bans go too far. by more than a two to one ratio, voters say abortion access across the country has become too difficult, rather than too easy. when put directly to the people, abortion access has largely been a winning issue. we ve seen it time and time again. but when left to state lawmakers, buffeted by the safety of their gerrymandered districts, that access has been rolled back systematically. do those truths hold? how long will abortion be a ....