Democracy Forward CEO On How Increasing Support For Legal Abortion Will Affect Trump In November

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CEO of Democracy Forward Skye Perryman joined Maggie McGrath on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss support for legal abortion and the impact on the 2024 election.

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00:00 Earlier this week, we saw a poll that indicated that Americans support legal abortion at a

00:06 level that we haven't seen before.

00:09 It seems as if with each passing month, public support for access to legal abortion just

00:16 keeps increasing.

00:18 What does that tell you about the elections in November and how will this affect former

00:24 President Trump and his showing at the polls?

00:27 Well, I think what it tells us, and again, we've known that there's strong public support,

00:32 but you're right.

00:33 As people are dealing with the devastation of DOBs and the real life implications that

00:38 are all the more stories that are all the more being told every day, we're seeing that

00:43 public support rise.

00:45 And I think it first of all tells us that it's no mistake that the same groups that

00:50 are seeking to restrict abortion, ban abortion, criminalize doctors, criminalize women, are

00:56 also the same groups that are seeking to undermine the ability of people to vote, to intimidate

01:01 people, to try to keep people from participating in the political process by either acting

01:06 like the process is rigged or by acting like there's no hope.

01:11 Because what we know is that this extremist view is not something that the vast majority

01:16 of people support.

01:17 And so I think first of all, what that tells us about what we're going to be dealing with

01:20 over the next 200 days is a movement that does not want people to show up to vote and

01:26 to use their voice.

01:27 And we all are going to need to have a role in encouraging civic participation, I think,

01:32 in light of those deep threats.

01:35 I also think what it tells you, and we saw this right after DOBs, where certain office

01:40 holders started trying to waffle in their positions or to hide their positions.

01:45 I think it also tells you that politicians know that this is important.

01:52 And so it's going to be very, this is popular.

01:54 And so it's going to be very important for your viewers and for all of us as Americans

01:59 to get very specific about what we are demanding of our office holders, of people who want

02:04 to hold the public trust and run for office, to understand their positions and to understand

02:10 who is backing them, and to make sure that if you are someone that supports reproductive

02:16 health care, which is the vast majority of people, that you know what positions folks

02:24 are holding.

02:25 Because I think that you're going to see a lot of attempts at misinformation, at disinformation.

02:30 We even saw it yesterday at the Supreme Court, where in the wake of Justice Sotomayor just

02:35 reading harrowing attempts, accounts of what has happened to women, some of the justices

02:40 looking down at their papers, becoming a bit more silent because this is a reality.

02:46 And so we just need to be very vigilant and understand, you know, and really understand

02:52 what positions people have here.

02:54 And of course, this Supreme Court was created by a far right legal movement that has backed

03:00 a far right political movement.

03:02 And it's important to remember that.

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