According to a new poll, support for abortion is at an all-time high. Candidates and state lawmakers alike might want to take that into consideration:
think abortion should be legal in all or most cases—an increase of seven percent since the last poll of this kind, commissioned in 2013, and a tie with the highest-ever reported support for abortion, in 1995. Even in 2010, when anti-abortion sentiment in these polls peaked, a full 55 percent of participants said it should be legal in most cases.
Support even remains consistent in states where abortion is under attack by lawmakers: 57 percent of participants who live in the 30 states with heavy restrictions on the procedure said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 64 percent of those hailing from states with less restricted access to abortion agreed.
Partisan differences impacted the results—77 percent of Democrats polled said abortion should be legal, compared to only 41 percent of Republicans—which could signal thatMore than 60 percent of those surveyed listed abortion as “one of the single most important issues” or a “very important issue” influencing their vote, and 54 percent disapproved of the Trump administration’s attempts to limit abortion access and erode reproductive rights.
Support for abortion has not been this high since 1995—when, according to similar polling data, its popularity peaked. As politicians gear up for 2020, state lawmakers and national candidates alike would do well to keep that in mind.
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