How has American opinion on abortion changed since Roe v. Wade was overturned? PolitiFact’s review of recent polls show abortion-rights support remains higher than anti-abortion sentiment, though views are fairly stable. Here’s the data.
Many political analysts have suggested that the Democrats’ surprisingly strong performance in the 2022 midterm elections — which were held about five months after the Supreme Court’s decision — stemmed partly from public dissatisfaction with the justices’ ruling. And there’s evidence that Democratic voters in particular were energized to vote because of the change in abortion policy.
In May 2021, 57% of respondents told Quinnipiac that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% said abortion should be illegal in all or most cases. Excluding respondents who said they didn’t know anything about a potential or actual decision, the percentage of respondents who opposed it fell modestly, from 72% to 67%, while the percentage that had heard of the decision and supported it rose equally modestly, from 28% to 33%.
Among all respondents, 72% said abortion was extremely or very important to their vote, compared with 28% who said it was moderately or not that important to their vote.
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