In the thirty-nine years since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, pollsters have asked hundreds of questions about abortion. This AEI Public Opinion Study brings many of those questions together in one place.

As a Pew survey confirmed this month, public opinion on abortion has barely budged over the pastthirty years.

Twenty-five top college students will travel to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. this June to participate in the 2012 American Enterprise Summer Institute. 

Since Roe v. Wade, pollsters have asked hundreds of questions about abortion. This public opinion study brings many of those questions together in one place.

At this event, panelists discussed the role of religion in modern society.

Rather than await the decision on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama decided to attack preemptively with error-filled claims about the place of judicial review in our constitutional system. Judicial review springs from the duty of a court, when deciding a case before it, to enforce the Constitution over a conflicting act of Congress.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

The constitutionality of the president’s health care plan may be an important part of the hearing for the next Supreme Court nominee, and Republicans could gain by asking politically damaging questions in a high-visibility forum.