Abortion Rights Still Political – Peter Roper in the Pueblo Chieftain

Forty-five years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the correctness of the decision is still being argued and its fate endangered by President Trump’s latest Supreme Court pick.

As Peter Roper points out in his Pueblo Chieftain article (7-11-18), Colorado voters have rejected a “personhood” amendment three times. It was interpreted as a ban and an effort to get a case before the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade.

Although the vote against the amendment dropped to 65 percent in 2014 from 70 percent in 2010, I argue that a solid majority of Colorado and U.S. voters oppose overturning Roe v. Wade by 2-to-1.

Although voters are more on the liberal side of abortion limits than the conservative, the issue still has a passionate minority that would overturn Roe and a majority of the public supports various restrictions, such as a waiting period and bans on late term abortions.