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Anti-abortion activists will take to the nation’s capital on Friday to rally and protest the legality of abortion.
The 49th annual March for Life, which is held each year on the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade ruling, which effectively legalized abortion nationwide, comes as the landmark ruling is facing its strongest threat in years. The high court justices are expected to rule later this year on a Mississippi case centered on overturning the legality of abortion.
SUPREME COURT HEARS MISSISSIPPI ABORTION CASE THAT COULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE
At issue – whether the conservative state’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional. And as part of the case, Mississippi officials are urging the conservative-dominated court to abolish Roe v. Wade.
Anti-abortion demonstrator protests in front of the Supreme Court building, on the day of hearing arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021.
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While many Americans have nuanced attitudes on the divisive issue and don’t feel abortion should be legal in all circumstances, most polling suggests that a majority do not want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of those questioned in a Fox News national poll conducted in September said they wanted to see the high court ruling stand, with 28% saying that it should be overturned.
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For the first time in Fox News polling, over half of Republicans (53%) joined majorities of Democrats (77%) and independents (64%) in saying Roe should remain the law of the land. Seven in 10 White Catholics (72%) and about half of White evangelical Christians (49%) also said the decision should stand.
The Fox News poll indicated that Americans remained divided on the legality of abortion. Twenty-nine percent said abortion should be legal in…
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