{"id":262588,"date":"2022-02-17T06:45:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=262588"},"modified":"2022-02-15T22:57:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T04:57:41","slug":"people-mississippi-dont-want-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/people-mississippi-dont-want-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite abortion industry claims, the people of Mississippi don’t want abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the Supreme Court prepares to rule in June on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion restriction in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em>, the media seems to be ignoring the fact that most people in Mississippi support<\/em> this restriction.<\/p>\n

The abortion industry and its friends in the media have been outspoken against the law because abortionists stand to lose money if abortion is more restricted than it already is. It’s the state’s last standing abortion facility \u2014 Jackson Women’s Health Organization \u2014 that filed the lawsuit to stop the law from taking effect, not women. And major media outlets have largely focused on how the abortion law would affect this last facility as well as minority and poor<\/a>\u00a0women, whom they discriminatorily claim need abortion. But women don’t need<\/em> abortion, nor do the women of Mississippi want<\/em> abortion.<\/p>\n

Majority of voters think abortion should be illegal<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey<\/a>, 59% of Mississippians want abortion to be illegal in all or most cases. In addition, 51% of those who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases are women. This means, that by drafting and passing the 15-week abortion restriction known as The Gestational Age Act, Mississippi’s legislators and governor were acting in line with the voters.<\/p>\n

Likewise, more people support<\/a> a 15-week restriction on abortion than oppose it.\u00a0According to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a>, a poll conducted by the Marquette University Law School asked respondents \u201cif they would favor or oppose a ruling to \u2018uphold a state law that (except in cases of medical emergencies or fetal abnormalities) bans abortions after the 15th week of a pregnancy,\u2019 37% said they favored upholding it, while 32% said they would oppose such a ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 15-week abortion, the abortionist uses the D&E abortion procedure to kill preborn children by literal dismemberment \u2014 tearing their arms and legs from their torsos while they are, in many cases, still alive. When people learn about what happens during an abortion, many of them agree<\/a> that it should be criminalized.<\/p>\n