If it's Friday, a federal judge could decide as early as today to impose a potential nationwide ban on a key abortion pill.

As new polling reveals just how massive of a political problem, the abortion issue is for the GOP.

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on board. Our exclusive reporting amid problem.

It's an abortion problem.

Right now, activists and lawmakers on both sides of the abortion issue are waiting to see if a federal judge will rule today to severely limit access to a common abortion method, medication abortion.

It's also known as the at-home abortion pill. Currently,

medication abortions account for more than half of all abortions in America. At a reproductive

rights event at the White House today, Vice President Kamala Harris, called the lawsuit a partisan

attack on the ability of doctors to prescribe medicine. This suit is backed by 22 Republican attorneys general and 67 Republican

members of Congress. The case has once again put a spotlight on how the Republican

position on abortion is far outside the mainstream. How far do you say? Well, I'm going to

show you in a minute because this could translate into a major

political liability and perhaps 2022 was a bigger warning sign on this issue that maybe not

everybody has realized just yet. 2024, voters are going to head to the ballot box again

and they're going to decide which party controls the Senate and the presidency. And the abortion

issue could become key. Don't believe me, look at these numbers.

The Public Religion Research Institute, P-R-R-R-I, just released a massive, the most comprehensive

survey on the abortion issue we've seen today. 20,000 people covering all 50 states.

So we're able to see this by state, by demographic group, all sorts of ways.

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