Well, what I said is "it's perfectly compatible with ..." rather than "it's also true that ...". But:
Gallup polling finds that the US population splits roughly 2:3:5 between unconditionally illegal, conditional, and unconditionally legal. More than 50% of people polled way Roe v Wade should not be overturned; fewer than 30% say it should be. (There are a lot of undecideds.) On the other hand, further questioning of the ~50% who say abortion should be legal sometimes but not always shows that they mostly want it to be available in "few" rather than "many" cases, which may mean that they want it to be more restricted than it is now, which I'm not sure how to square with opinions on Roe v Wade.
So. US law permits abortion in some cases. A large majority of US citizens think US law should permit abortion in some cases. It's been many years since Roe v Wade and the people of the US have conspicuously not voted in governments that have tried to get Roe v Wade overturned. So yeah, I think it's fair to say that for abortion to be sometimes legal is the Will of the People.
It may indeed not be the Will of the People of Texas. It very likely isn't the Will of the People of (say) Odessa, Texas. But it's a matter of federal law, rather than anything more local.
(Same-sex marriage is currently a matter of state rather than federal law in the US, and in the particular state under discussion it's legal. Given how it became so and that because it was fairly recent it's hard to gauge public opinion from subsequent events, I concede that we don't know that legal same-sex marriage is the Will of the People of Idaho. It is, however, the law of Idaho.)
I concede that we don't know that legal same-sex marriage is the Will of the People of Idaho. It is, however, the law of Idaho.
Consider who it came to be the "law" of Idaho. Did the Idaho legislator pass legislation permitting it? No, the Idaho supreme court re-interpreted the existing laws to basically declare that it is and has always been the law.
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