Republicans keep passing extreme anti-abortion bans without popular support. Here’s why
by Sam Levine in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#605VH)
Most Americans don't want abortion bans but gerrymandering allows politicians to face little accountability
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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