On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that in an ideal world, if the abortion issue is put to state legislatures, “we would wind up where Europe is” on abortion “where they say, there are strong arguments here, let’s try to find some way to reconcile.”
Brooks stated, “[W]hile a clear majority support Roe, a clear majority oppose abortions — or support abortion restrictions after the first trimester. … And there’s no gender gap particularly on this issue. Women and men are more or less in the same camp. And so, you could say, should we support Roe, but then, if it goes back to the voters in the state legislatures, and they start acting, in theory, in my ideal world, in PBS world, it goes back to the voters, and the majority is sort of in the middle there. They want some restrictions, but not all the way through. And so, in…
