The spending bill signed by President Trump bans Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid funds for a year, described as a significant pro-life victory. Anti-abortion groups, facing unpopularity in pursuing a national abortion ban, are instead focusing on more incremental approaches. These include cutting funding and imposing restrictions on abortion medication availability. Polls indicate that a majority of Americans, particularly women, support the legality of abortion, while many oppose strict national abortion laws. This societal stance complicates direct legislative efforts against access to abortion services.
Anti-abortion groups and particularly anti-abortion politicians in Congress know that a direct national abortion ban is deeply deeply unpopular. Instead what they're trying to do is restrict access by a thousand cuts.
Polling has consistently shown that close to two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all circumstances. Women, in particular, support abortion rights.
A poll from last summer by KFF... found that most women between the ages of 18 and 49 - including almost half of all Republican women - oppose national laws banning abortion.
The influential anti-abortion group SBA Pro-Life America called the spending bill that bans Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Medicaid funds for a year 'the greatest pro-life victory' since the end of Roe v. Wade.
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