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What is your stance on abortion?

Abortion is a medical procedure resulting in the termination of a human pregnancy and death of a fetus. Abortion was banned in 30 states until the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. The ruling made abortion legal in all 50 states but gave them regulatory powers over when abortions could be performed during a pregnancy. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in the case Dobbs v. Jackson. The court ruled that the substantive right to abortion was not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history or tradition”, nor considered a right when the Due Process Clause was ratified in 1868.

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Response rates from 34.7k Austin voters.

72%
Pro-choice
28%
Pro-life
57%
Pro-choice
21%
Pro-life
8%
Pro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions
7%
Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child
4%
Pro-choice, I don’t agree but the government has no right to ban it
1%
Pro-life, and I also oppose abortion for victims of rape and incest
3%
Pro-choice, but ban after the first three months

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 @4RZFDJGfrom Washington  answered…4yrs4Y

If the Father of the unborn child is willing and capable of caring for the child and wants to assume legal custody of child and is a fit parent, I feel he should have an equal say in the decision. There should be rights for Fathers who are able and willing.
I think this may encourage people to be more thoughtful about intimacy. I believe Men should have a say in the decision of the termination of their unborn child.
I also believe in required counseling before and after abortion as it often leads to eventual traumatic disorders and depression.

 @5928RG7from California  answered…4yrs4Y

End all programs, no abortive procedures period. Lock up all doctors, nurses, staff of any facility that participated in any abortive acts. I want stiff penalties for medical staff and go after any women who have had an abortion and grandfathering it. For each abortion 15 years to life it is premeditated murder not only for the woman also the man that impregnated her!!!

 @8LY3TR9 from Ohio  answered…4yrs4Y

I am pro life but if you are raped, then you can have a abortion but if your were stupid and had sex at a young age then don't abort it.

 @4VXBP8Qfrom Maine  answered…4yrs4Y

Abortion should be mandatory for anyone with an IQ under 120.

 @5MBK6ZXfrom Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

I'm personally against it but strongly believe that it's just like the presidential election, if you don't vote you can't say anything. If you disagree with abortion what are you going to do to help those kids who didn't get aborted and are now in foster homes? If you're going to be against it, do something to help. Adopt that baby of the mother you judged for wanting an abortion.

 @4RZ875Qfrom Alabama  answered…4yrs4Y

The government should fund abortions. End the Hyde Amendment. Abortion is healthcare.

 @528MY4Mfrom Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

I do not agree with a helpless human life being ended purely because of any unfortunate circumstance which may have created that life. But I DO NOT agree that my beliefs should be FORCED upon another. Let each make their choices until science can factually determine when life begins.

 @58TJZW2from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

I agree it is a MAN and WOMAN's combined decision. It the man wants the baby she should carry to full term and the man raise the baby.

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