How gerrymandering paved the way for the US’s anti-abortion backlash
Legislators realize what some voters do not: in many places in the US, voters don’t choose politicians – politicians choose voters
Public opinion polls in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and elsewhere have all found that a majority of citizens in those places prefer to keep abortion legal. Yet Republican-controlled legislatures in each of those states have, in the past three months, passed laws that would outlaw abortion in most cases.
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