The 2022 midterm elections sent a strong, early signal that voters on the left were thinking about abortion differently — and that trend seems especially pronounced among nonreligious Americans. From FiveThirtyEight:
found the gap on abortion rights between secular and religious Americans is larger in the U.S. than in other countries. It would also explain the surge in nonreligious identity among young women, who are among the strongest supporters of abortion rights. Ryan Burge, analyzing the General Social Survey,that young women are now as likely as young men to identify as nonreligious, a break from the past. And young women’s views of organized religion dropped sharply in just the last couple of years.
A 2022 survey conducted by the Survey Center on American Life found that the number of young women who said churches and religious organizations “bring people together”And what about white evangelical Protestants? Abortion is still clearly an important issue to many of them, even if it appears to have declined in salience in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision. But in a swift reversal, the issue of abortion is now much more complicated on the right than on the left.
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