Slippery Polls About Roe v. Wade | Just Facts
Polls showing public support for Roe. v. Wade are rooted in flagrant disinformation spread by the media.
SOURCES:
A leak indicates the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
For decades, the media has been reporting that Roe only legalizes abortion for the first 3 months of pregnancy or before viability: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Roe+v.+Wade%22+%22first+three+months%22+OR+%22viability%22&lr=&safe=images&biw=1024&bih=686&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2000%2Ccd_max%3A5%2F26%2F2022&tbm=nws
Polls explicitly mislead respondents to believe that Roe only legalizes abortion before viability: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/roe-v-wade-allows-abortions-for-all-9-months-of-pregnancy-not-just-the-first-3
Humans become viable around 22 weeks of pregnancy, or about 24 weeks after fertilization:
https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/11/773.full
https://www.justfacts.com/abortion#Science
“By week 12, the fetus sucks its thumb, kicks, makes fists and faces, and has the beginnings of baby teeth.” [Textbook: Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications (3rd edition). McGraw Hill, 1998. Page 56.]
“Limb movements, which occur at the end of the embryonic period (8 weeks), become coordinated by the 14th week, but are too slight to be felt by the mother.” [Textbook: Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects (5th edition). W.B. Saunders Company, 1998. Page 106.]
“The central advance of this study is the demonstration that ‘social actions’ are already performed in the second trimester of gestation. Starting from the 14th week of gestation twin foetuses plan and execute movements specifically aimed at the co-twin.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013199
“At 20 weeks, the fetus … now sleeps and wakes and hears sounds.” [Article: “Fetus.” American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia. Random House, 2003.]
