May 3, 2022, 09:13am.
According to a draft opinion reported by Politico, the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion.
There is a pro- and anti-abortion rights rally in Washington, DC.
Gallup polls show Americans support abortion rights at 80% in May 2021, which is higher than in 1975, but still less than in 1995.
In May, the share of Americans who said abortion is morally acceptable reached a record high of 47%, up from a low of 36% in 2009, and a Quinnipiac poll found support for abortion being legal in all or most cases reached a near-record high in September.
The Supreme Court's abortion precedent is supported by a majority of the people in a number of polls.
A January CNN poll found that a majority of people want their state to have laws that are more liberal on abortion if the law is overturned.
An Associated Press/NORC poll in June found the strongest support for abortion when the woman's life is in danger, and if the child is raped or incest.
The further into the pregnancy, with AP/NORC finding 61% believe abortion should be legal during the first trimester, but only 34% in the second and third, and an April Wall Street Journal poll finding more Americans approve of 15-week abortion bans than disapprove.
Democrats are more likely to support abortion rights than Republicans, with a September study showing that only 39% of Republicans think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
The majority of white evangelicals believe that abortion should be illegal, but the majority of Americans with religious affiliations do not.
You might think that women are more likely to support abortion than men, but it's not as big as you might think.
Black and Asian Americans are the most supportive of abortion being legal, according to polling by the Pew Research Center.
The poll found that support for abortion was highest among those under the age of 30 and lowest among those over the age of 50.
A Washington Post/ABC poll found a correlation between the number of college graduates who want it legalized and the number of people with a high school education or less.
The All In Together poll found that 34% of parents with children in their house opposed the Texas near-total abortion ban, compared to 54.9% without kids.
The Post/ABC found that urban residents are more likely to support abortion rights than those in the Midwest.
The Post/ABC poll found that more people want the court to uphold the law if they earn less than $50,000 a year.
The share of Americans who identify as pro-choice or pro-life has not changed since 1995. According to Gallup, 49% of Americans now identify as pro-choice and 47% as pro-life, as compared with 34% and 34% in 1995 respectively. More respondents identified as pro-life than pro-choice in the years of 2010 and 2009, even though a plurality of Americans have always supported abortion being legal in at least some circumstances.
According to a May 2021 poll, Americans support abortion less than other countries, with a global average of 70%. The countries with the highest support for abortion are Sweden, the Netherlands, and France.
The Supreme Court is expected to overturn Wade as it prepares to issue an opinion in a case about whether states can restrict abortion even before a fetus is viable. According to a draft of the opinion obtained by Politico, the court intends to use the ruling to overturn the 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v.
The federal right to an abortion was guaranteed by the Supreme Court in 1973. The court ruled in Whole Woman's Health that states cannot impose abortion restrictions that impose an "undue burden" on the procedure. The Guttmacher Institute says Republican state lawmakers have been trying to get the Supreme Court to reconsider its precedent, with more than 1,300 abortion restrictions imposed since 1973. The Supreme Court decided to take up the challenge to Mississippi's abortion ban in the year 2021. The strictest restrictions on abortion in the U.S. have been imposed by Texas, and now Idaho and Oklahoma have followed suit.
Public opinion on abortion.
Polling on abortion.
Following the Texas ban, Americans supported abortion at a near-record rate.
A majority of Americans support abortion, but not later in the pregnancy.
A majority of Americans want the Supreme Court to reject Texas abortion law.
A debate about abortion is motivating voters to vote.
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