How Overturning Roe V. Wade Will effect ellections
The Supreme Court made the decision to overturn Roe Vs. Wade on June 24th, 2022. Roe Vs. Wade was the benchmark legislation to legalize abortion in the United States of America. This decision allowed states to restrict and all out ban peoples ability to perform and access to abortions. This decision faced immediate outcry from many after multiple states started passing anti-abortion legislature in the weeks following – with 9 states banning abortion as of June 29th, just 5 days after Roe V. Wade was overturned.
Abortions are primarily performed on people who are part of different minority groups, such as low income households, LGBTQ+ folks and people of color.
A study, titled the Turn Away Study, was lead by a group called “Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health” (ANSIRH) and took a deep dive into fininding how denying women abortions affects their mental and physical health as well as their socioeconomic status. According to American University in Washington DC, in the findings from the Turn Away Study “they found that denying … women an abortion creates economic hardship and insecurity that lasts for years. Compared with women who obtained their desired abortion, women denied the abortion had lowered credit scores as well as increased debt, bankruptcies, and evictions.” The study also found that women who had been denied an abortion have incured more debt, which was often found to be further overdue.
Many people wonder what this may lead to in the future – people question whether or not the rights of women, and other uterus owners, will continue to be stripped or if other communities will find themselves losing their rights as well and because of these questions, with midterm elections coming up, as well as the Presidential elections occurring in 2024, many people are questioning what role the overturning of Roe V. Wade will have in the election cycles.
Both Democrats and Republicans are able to use this in their own way to help them campaign for future elections. Republicans can use it to show how they have passed things that they said they would and further politicize what they see as accomplishments. Democrats can use abortion access in the elections to encourage slow – to – vote Democrats to vote since many Democrats are pro-choice and Bidens low approval ratings as of late due to skyrocketing inflation rates.
You can clearly see in the midterm elections so far how many people running are already using this issue to market themselves. Especially with republican candidates as many have been changing their websites to remove strict abortion accesses from the things they hope to accomplish.
