More than half of American voters believe the Supreme Court will limit access to birth control and same-sex marriage after it overturned Roe v. Wade, a new poll found on Sunday.
Fifty-seven percent of respondents to a new CBS News poll said it was ‘likely’ that the case legalizing same-sex marriage will now be overturned and fifty-five percent said the body could limit contraception.
The high court’s conservative majority voted 5-4 that the right to an abortion is not enshrined in the Constitution on Friday, reversing five decades of judicial precedent. Whether the medical procedure is legal will now be decided on a state-by-state basis.
As of Sunday, nine states have now banned abortion and at least a dozen are expected to see limits in the near future.
Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas’ Republican governor, insisted that birth control methods were ‘not an issue’ in his state’s ban during an appearance NBC’s Meet the Press.
During the interview he and host Chuck Todd clashed over Arkansas’…
