By a more-than-2-to-1 margin, most Americans (51%) now say the Supreme Court 'should prevent any changes' to the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone 'by reversing the Texas ruling' from earlier this month that effectively ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the medication nationwide, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. - The Court on April 14 temporarily preserved access to mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force.
The survey of 1,530 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 14 to 17, finds the public in opposition — by wide and largely consistent margins — to the prospect of new restrictions on abortion medication. Last week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals blocked the Texas ruling but reversed a series of steps taken by the FDA in recent years to ease access to mifepristone, including allowing it to be sent through the mail, distributed by health care providers who are not doctors and prescribed during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy .
Overall, a similar 18-point plurality disapproves rather than approves of the Texas ruling. These attitudes closely correspond to more general views on abortion, such as a 52% to 30% majority that favors a national law “keeping abortion as legal and accessible nationwide as it had been under Roe v. Wade” and a 53% to 36% majority that prefers their own state to keep all or most abortions legal rather than illegal in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June.
Today, 46% of Americans consider abortion “very important” as a voting issue, and 77% consider it either somewhat or very important. Yet among those who favor codifying Roe v. Wade nationwide, a full 54% rate abortion as very important — compared to just 41% among those who oppose codifying Roe v. Wade. Likewise, Americans who say abortion is a very important voting issue think — by a 2-to-1 margin — that the Democratic Party does a “better job” handling it than the Republican Party .
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