Abortion still a major political issue in upcoming campaigns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% :Should Wilson make the runoff against a Republican candidate, Clapper added, abortion could become a major campaign theme.
54% : After the high court's Dobbs decision, the details suddenly became much more important, with access to abortion mostly left to the states for now.
47% : In his February State of the Union address, President Joe Biden put abortion on the table for the 2024 elections.
45% : The shifts come as a June Gallup poll shows that 69% of Americans now believe abortion should be legal in the first three months of pregnancy.
42% : "We're advising don't make abortion a campaign point.
41% : Candidate Richard Nelson, the Republican state representative from Mandeville, for instance, says he plans to ask his opponents at the next debate just where they stand on the lack of exceptions to the blanket ban on abortion, even when a pregnancy results from rape or incest.
41% : For decades, with the right to abortion guaranteed by the U.S. Supreme Court, the two parties were locked in a bitter but mostly academic dispute over the matter.
40% :Democratic candidate Shawn Wilson, of Lafayette, says while abortion is not the leading issue on the campaign trail, it is near the top.
40% : While Louisiana voters are among the most strongly pro-life in the nation, abortion remains the dominant wedge issue in American politics.
40% : Republicans had a straightforward position against abortion, which they called "pro-life."
38% : Most say the big questions about the legality of abortion have finally been settled, and therefore won't play much of a role in this fall's elections.
38% : He is recommending that his Oregon clients say "pro-life" is a personal belief while stressing that the Supreme Court has made abortion a state issue that therefore isn't in their purview.
37% : One reason, Wilson surmises, is that because he's a Democrat and African American, many voters just assume he is pro-abortion.
36% : Most candidates are following political strategists' advice to stick with being against abortion and avoiding the topic of exceptions, which could energize a small group of conservative pro-lifers who vote based on that issue.
36% : When asked directly about rape and incest exceptions, Louisiana's two senators, both Republicans, and four of the five GOP representatives said they opposed abortion but didn't address exceptions.

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