Washington — For most of her life, Angela Crawford voted conservatively Republican. However, several court rulings and Republican-led state acts banned abortion and in vitro fertilization, which had helped her conceive her daughter.
Crawford, 38, is now collecting signatures in Missouri for a fall ballot campaign to protect abortion and other reproductive health services. She votes Democrat. Republicans said that the 2022 Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade would mostly affect abortion seekers. However, it has not happened.
Women who never planned to abort nearly perished due to lack of emergency care. Miscarriage treatment is delayed. States with strong bans are cutting reproductive healthcare. Alabama suspended fertility treatments. Democrats get chance as damage develops.
“I wish everyone would realize how big this topic is,” Crawford said of reproductive rights. People first discounted it because they didn't comprehend the scope.” Democratic politicians are experiencing results by running on reproductive rights issues.
Biden is trying to overcome low approval ratings and Republican Donald Trump's loyal following to win reelection in November. As reproductive health rights decline in states like Indiana, Florida, and Arizona, the issue becomes more pressing.
A Texas woman who went into premature labor, had sepsis, and nearly died because she couldn't have an abortion and a Louisiana woman who said tight laws stopped her from getting miscarriage care are campaigning for Biden in North Carolina. Durham community center walls were covered in blue and red “Stop Trump’s Abortion Ban” placards.
Doctors at the event acknowledged aiding pregnant people is harder. They now print travel directions to Virginia for patients who cannot have abortions in North Carolina, a chore they never had to contemplate. Duke University student Amaia Clayton has been more politically active due to uncertainty.
“I’m 19. College student, she said. Reproductive health care is highly relevant to me today and in the future.” The temporary suspension in IVF procedures in Alabama sent shock waves across the country as other states consider measures that might produce similar effects.
Republicans, including Trump, have struggled to respond to voters' significant opposition of abortion restrictions during the previous two years. “What we continue to see are more and more extreme positions on this issue, now around contraception and IVF,” Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said. "And these are policies voters have repeatedly rejected."
In the 2022 midterms, abortion availability boosted women to the ballot, giving Democrats surprising success. -NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that two-thirds of Americans support legalizing abortion. One quarter think abortion should always be allowed and 10% think it should always be outlawed.
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