‘The world flipped upside down’: will end of Roe galvanize Democrats’ base in midterms?

Democrats believe a brewing backlash after June ruling will reshape the battle for control of Congress and statehouses this fall

For years, Democrats warned that abortion rights were under grave threat. Across the US, antiabortion activists in red states chipped away at access and pushed for conservative judges to secure their gains. Yet for many Americans, the prospect of losing the constitutional right to abortion that had existed since 1973 remained worrying but remote.

That all changed in June, when in Dobbs v Jackson, the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, the 49-year-old...