America doesn’t have real democracy. The Roe v Wade draft opinion proves it

The Supreme Court intends to overthrow Roe v. Wade, and with it much if not all of the Constitutional right to privacy, according to a draft opinion leaked to Politico. Republican justices claim that they are embracing the original intent of the founders. But the decision cannot be called democratic.

Alito’s draft opinion is meant to give states sweeping control over people’s bodies and intimate lives. But public opinion polls have long shown conclusively that the public supports abortion rights. In 2019, a Pew poll once again found that 70 percent of Americans want to preserve Roe; only 28 percent said they wanted the decision completely overturned. In line with that finding, 59 percent of Americans said they were concerned that states were making it too difficult to get abortions; 39 percent said states were making it too easy.

Voting patterns aren’t a referendum on any one issue. But it’s significant that the party that supports abortion rights has consistently received more votes. Republicans have only won popular vote majorities in presidential elections once in the last 30 years.