Gabrielle Russon
A majority of Americans support abortion being legal two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
About 63% — which is “a modest uptick” — believe abortion should be legal nationwide, the Pew study found.
“About six-in-ten (63%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This share has grown 4 percentage points since 2021 — the year prior to the 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe,” Pew said this week.
The study comes as Florida voters are set to decide Amendment 4 to preserve abortion rights in the November election. To pass, Amendment 4 needs at least 60% off the vote. Florida’s new six-week abortion ban went into effect this month.
“Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (85%) overwhelmingly say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, with near unanimous support among liberal Democrats,” the center said about its findings.
“By comparison, Republicans and Republican leaners (41%) are far less likely to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. However, two-thirds of moderate and liberal Republicans still say it should be.”
Before the Supreme Court overturned the groundbreaking Roe v. Wade, “both parties have seen a modest uptick in the share who say abortion should be legal,” Pew added.
Pew, a Washington-based nonpartisan organization that studies issues, attitudes and trends, conducted the abortion survey of 8,709 adults April 8-14.
“As in the past, relatively few Americans (25%) say abortion should be legal in all cases, while even fewer (8%) say it should be illegal in all cases,” the study also found.
In Florida, early polling shows a large number of voters are still undecided on their stance for Amendment 4. A Florida Chamber of Commerce survey released last week indicates the race could be tight.
About 61% support Amendment 4, while 10% are undecided or refused to answer, according to the Chamber poll, which had a margin error of +/- 4 percentage points.
26 comments
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 11:30 am
This is all the Dems have. Can’t campaign on the economy. Can’t campaign on the Southern Border. Can’t campaign on foreign policy. Can’t campaign on crime. This is their go to subject. They have nothing else.
Joe
May 17, 2024 at 11:33 am
Well they can and do also campaign on the RepubliQan party being full of corrupt conspiratorial traitors exemplified by their dear diaper-wearing leader.
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 11:37 am
If anyone is wearing a diaper it is Joe. Mumbling, shuffling, stumbling, tripping, falling. Without his teleprompter, hand picked reporters, cheat sheets, and cue cards he would just stand there staring into space. No one is home.
rick whitaker
May 17, 2024 at 11:42 am
HOLWLER MONKEY, more what-about-ism. how childish.
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 12:25 pm
So your boy Joe says Trump wears a diaper. I respond in kind. It’s not what aboutism, it is a response to a statement made. Do you understand that or do you need cheat sheets, and handlers? It’s okay old man.
Dont Say FLA
May 17, 2024 at 11:50 am
The debate is just a few weeks away.
While mental capacity comes and goes for the elderlies, we’ll all get to see clearly which one is more senile than the other for the specific few hours of the debate.
Problem is, that might flip flop during the few hours of the second debate!
rick whitaker
May 17, 2024 at 12:31 pm
HOWLER MONKEY, so you use what-about-isms but don’t know what that means, how pitiful.
Dont Say FLA
May 17, 2024 at 11:55 am
Why wouldn’t Democrats focus on the G0P’s catching of the car? It’d be foolish not to. That said, focusing on the G0P’s worst mistake EVER doesn’t mean the economy’s, doesn’t mean Trump didn’t kill the border deal, doesn’t mean anything about foreign policy (until states start trying to restrict international travel for anyone who might be pregnant), and it’s doesn’t mean violent crime hasn’t dropped like a rock the last few years. The Democrats can campaign on all of that, but why not go after the biggest failure by Republicans, ever, which was, hilariously, the Republicans getting exactly what they wanted. Y’think maybe that’s why Trump killed the border deal? Did he realize that Republicans catching that car would go as well for them as did their catch of the abortion mobile?
rick whitaker
May 17, 2024 at 12:16 pm
DSF, your post to howler monkey is a little too over his head. i have notice that when i explain something to him, he NEVER gets it.
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 9:08 am
IBS willfully does not take rebuttal points. My replies to his faux news are usually intended for every reader except IBS, just so his nonsense isn’t left to stand alone.
rick whitaker
May 20, 2024 at 6:31 pm
DSF , yes, i’m a version of the haters i love to hate. i’m usually ready to fight for my convictions. i don’t have much of the christian forgiveness crap in me. i will fight for what i believe in just like a christian is willing to travel to the other side of the world to fight a good christian fight. i love to criticize christians for my reasons, not christian reasons. i am a huge hypocrite in a huge hypocrite world. i’m NOT a nice guy to maga or christian types. i give them the hell i don’t believe in. DSF, i agree with you in some ways, but obviously, not in other ways. i love your one liners. thanks for your comments. remember, i’m 71 years old, i have been seriously screwed over by christian types for decades, i won’t forget or stop messing with christians ever chance i get. i hate christianity more than you could imagine. if possible, i would explain to you my christian experiencies. anyway, thanks
rick whitaker
May 17, 2024 at 11:57 am
HOWLER MONKEY, your post is a copy paste POS. grow up pushaw or whoever the fuk you are. i don’t care who you are. howler monkey is who you are.
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Copy and paste eh? You sound more and more like a back woods hillbilly from Tennessee with a middle school education. You obviously do not like opinions that differ from yours. You aren’t the Oracle here hillbilly.
rick whitaker
May 17, 2024 at 12:41 pm
HOWLER MONKEY, when i see the same exact words over and over, i know someone would not waste time typing the same thing, so copy and paste is a time saver for someone like you who writes the same lies over and over. don’t play dumb, no one could be so dumb as to not know what i was referring to, except maybe you. are you playing dumb???
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 9:50 am
Rick, what’s the point in this oft repeated back and forth with, previously, Elmo (now aka Elvis) the Sphincter Man but now with Impeach Biden, where it’s just personal attacks?
Argue for points, not against people. Arguing for points is more satisfying that arguing against people, plus when arguing for points, sometimes you can make a point. When you consistently argue against people, you diminish your own message whenever you do argue a point.
The occasional snarky jab is more satisfying than back and forth name calling, and the occasional jab doesn’t diminish your side of the discussion like pointless arguing does.
Your topic shouldn’t be you, nor should it be any commenter you reply to.
If somebody eggs you on till you’re both attacking each other in back and forths, they won because you’re not talking about the news post. They derailed and diverted you, meaning they won.
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 9:54 am
Just to clarify where I said “when arguing points, sometimes you can make a point,” it’s rare that another internet commenter will concede a point bc many if not most are just here to fight. Think of it like you’re writing for the silent third parties out there on the internet. When you let them look like they’re looking for a fight, but you de-escalate the fight and reply with thoughts and points, YOU win, but what you win isn’t the argument. You win hearts and minds of third party readers.
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 10:04 am
Also, as if that horse I’m beating isn’t sufficiently dead yet, with the election coming up in less than six months, the side of decency and serving the public (for the most part, at least relative to the other side that serves a cult leader) needs to win all the hearts and minds than can possibly be won, and imo the winning strategy is “thoughtfulness and decency.”
I’ll admit I do get my mocking in, but I try to do that in non-diverting ways that don’t derail my point or the reader. For example address Impeach Biden, IB, with acronym for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and “Hung Will” who chose a pseudonym for themself as “Large Dick,” I address as Hung Lil for “Rhonda sized” lol. Ron DeSanits created his own nicknames Rhonda and Dee, so I use those. But the key in using nicknames for mockery is that the MAGA base respects that which is why I feel that’s my best vector for getting some fun mockery in there along with my points.
Hopefully I’m done now. I’ll admit I do have a problem with derailing readers, but that’s with typing too much. I’ve been working on transitions to keep people reading, but who knows if anybody does keep reading when I get too long winded, just like this.
rick whitaker
May 17, 2024 at 12:43 pm
HOWLER MONKEY, copy and paste.
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 12:57 pm
You are senile Dick. Seek help. Maybe you and Joe can be roommates in the care facility.
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Dick, you are beyond help, much like Joe. What I repeat over and over is the truth. You, the Demos, and the Joe Biden staff don’t like it because his failings have hurt this country.
rbruce
May 17, 2024 at 12:17 pm
If Pew Research existed in the 1700’s, they would report “Most Americans support slavery.” Supreme Court overturned long standing slave laws and they overturned long standing federal abortions laws. USA is a Republic where States have sovereignty, unless the Constitution clearly states otherwise. Abortion is not a federal issue.
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 9:42 am
Pew Research would report today that “Most Americans don’t support Veganism.” Does that mean Vegans are right and nobody should eat animals or animal byproducts?
That bit of silliness aside, abortion is not a federal issue. It never was.
Roe v Wade protected women from having to make efforts and endure expense & dangers to achieve an outcome for themselves that women living in other states didn’t have to make / endure. It protected women from enforcement of unequal restrictions that are rooted in sexism and religious dogma.
Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion, and every last case of anti-choice-ness is religion based.
The problem there is that people who choose the USA’s most common religion, Christianity, feel like their religion should be imposed on everybody, same as Jihadists feel about Islam.
Anti-abortion laws are nothing but Christianity based Sharia, but that doesn’t count for anything to Christians because they think their religion is right and everybody is wrong, so points about women’s medical care being protected under freedom from religion always falls on the deaf ears of Christians.
Linwood Wright
May 17, 2024 at 12:20 pm
If you’re against abortion, than don’t have one. Pretty simple really.
But the typical conservative is moron who can’t even understand simple concepts.
Impeach Biden
May 17, 2024 at 12:30 pm
I am absolutely in favor of a woman’s choice on this. However in this day and age with all sorts of contraception I would think the actual number of abortions is trending downward.
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 9:26 am
I agree for just plain old “oops” based elective abortion. Dont event know why that’s a problem anymore given 5 year implants with 99.9% effective rates.
The problem is the state GOPs will be moving the goalpost ASAP to ban contraception too bc in their opinion sex is dirty dirty dirty and should only be for procreational purposes, never for recreational, and not even just for maintained intimacy with a long term partner.
Plus, women who require an abortion for whatever negative medical outcome they may face, or even women who opt for an abortion rather than tending to a drooling lump of flesh in a diaper for the 25 useless years on the government dole before it expires, they seem to be experiencing true difficulty getting into their hoovering, even under the alleged exception clauses as was promised by G0Ps.
Anti-choice lawmakers cannot be taken at their word, so they need to be taken out of the equation.
Should abortion be legal at 8 months and 29 days? Yes. Should that happen? Doubtful. Does that happen? Not to the degree G0P and conservative media would have people believe. Not even orders of magnitude less than G0Ps will have folks believe. “Once in a blue moon” is more like full term abortion’s actual frequency.
But if/when that does happen, it’s going to be medical scenarios in every last case where a full birth is going to murder mama for some extremely rare medical condition not known earlier, or either the “baby” isn’t viable for some very late (or late noticed) reason, and it’s going to die and rot in there rather than drop out. Since it’s complicated, leave it the doctor(s) and the woman. Don’t complicated further with legal nonsense that hazards the lives of some women exclusively for the purpose of red meat for the G0P base.
If a woman just wants to get an abortion, she will do that as soon as she possibly can. The longer she waits, the harder it is on her physically and perhaps emotionally too. Nobody wants to wait until 8 months 29 days for an elective abortion. Nobody wants to wait even half of that.
I think abortion laws are mostly just men trying to have their own say in the outcome of a pregnancy they 50% created. If those men would just get on birth control, they would have total control.
As things usually are, a decision to get knocked up is left up to the woman. A man can out a condom but if the woman wants that baby, she can poke a hole in it or kick him out, fetch it out the trash, get a funnel, get a baby.
I have heard talk of a “the pill” for men. Men who don’t want abortions happening can get on that pill and then leave decisions for non-pilled folks to them and their doctors.
Legislators should never be in the mix for a decision on an abortion unless they’re the couple considering it for themselves and their fetus which no American lacking a science degree in medicine or biology can even identify as a bird fetus or a human fetus or any other fetus.
If it’s a baby, of which species is it a baby? If you can’t tell, it’s not a baby!
Dont Say FLA
May 18, 2024 at 9:31 am
Plus, IBS, wow! Good for you for being a real conservative who wants government to stay out of people’s private lives. Respect!
(Just to be clear: I am not being sarcastic with this TY2IBS, lol. I do mean this one)
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