Good day. Today is Wednesday, November the 8th, 2023, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins from the Denison

Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Yesterday's elections were bad news for pre-born

children in America. Kentucky re-elected pro-choice governor Andy Bashir, indicating that abortion rights advocacy

will be a positive issue for Democrats in next year's national elections.

Ohio voters adopted a ballot measure to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.

And Virginia voters rebuffed Republican candidates in favor of those

who support abortion rights. Abortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade, and abortions

have risen nationally, even though several states have restricted or outlawed the procedure.

Yesterday's results are significant politically because Donald Trump won Kentucky

by a 25.9% margin in 2020 and Ohio by an 8% margin. While Joe Biden won Virginia, Republican

Glenn Youngen won the governor's race the next year. Virginia's elections are especially relevant to this issue

since Governor Yonken has advocated an approach that many hoped would forge a cultural consensus

on abortion. Yonken has been supporting a 15-week abortion ban, with exceptions for rape, incest,

and protecting the life of the mother. U.S. Catholic bishops have endorsed a

similar Senate plan sponsored by Lindsey Graham that would allow states to restrict abortion

earlier in pregnancy, but no later than 15 weeks. Susan B. Anthony pro-life America also endorses

a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and promises to oppose any presidential

candidate who refuses to embrace this standard at a minimum. Here's the political reasoning behind

such proposals. According to Gallup, 69% of Americans say abortion should be legal in the first

trimester, which is conception to 12 weeks, while support drops to 37%

for the second trimester, 13 to 27 weeks, and 22% for the third, 28 to 40 weeks.

55% oppose abortion being legal in the second trimester and 70% in the third trimester.

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