Less than a third of people who live in states that already outlaw the procedure want their state to do the same now that the Supreme Court has legalized abortion.
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According to the poll, 25% of Americans want the laws in their state to ban abortion, while 61% want their state to guarantee abortion access.
Only 32% of respondents live in states with abortion ban still on the books.
The only demographic that supported abortion bans was Republicans, with more than half of them wanting their state to outlaw the procedure rather than the other way around.
Less than half of Republican women support banning the procedure, but that is still higher than the number who would prefer their state protected access.
Republicans are more in favor of the court's decision to overturn it than they are of their own state's ban on abortion.
Only 9% of Democrats and 17% of Independents support their state banning abortion, along with 22% of people in states that protect abortion rights.
A third of the way done. Sixty five percent of respondents disapproved of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the abortion law. Republicans are the only demographic that a majority of respondents approve of.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming all had abortion bans that were in place before the Supreme Court legalized abortion. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington are some of the states that protect abortion access.
Democrats hope the Supreme Court ruling will increase voter turnout in the upcoming elections. According to the KFF poll, more than half of respondents think abortion will be important to their vote, and more than half think the Supreme Court's decision has made them more motivated to vote. When it comes to the issues that are most important to people's votes, abortion is ahead of inflation, and independent voters seem less swayed by abortion than Democrats. According to the KFF poll, independents rank abortion as their fourth most important political issue, and only a small percentage of them will support candidates who favor abortion access. According to other polls, Americans who support the ruling are more likely to vote than Americans who don't, possibly because they feel politicians aren't doing enough to address the issue.
On June 24, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of abortion rights, triggering a wave of state-level abortion restrictions. The West Virginia legislature is considering passing an abortion ban after the state's 19th century-era ban was blocked in court, and the Indiana Senate passed a bill on Saturday that could make the state the first to impose a new abortion ban. The issue of what abortion bans should look like in the future is becoming more complicated. The KFF poll shows that Americans do not want total abortion bans without exemptions for rape and incest. As a result, both Indiana and West Virginia's proposed bills contain exemptions for rape and incest, which endangers both sides of the debate, as abortion rights advocates believe the bills go too far and anti- abortion advocates believe they don't go far enough
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How Americans Really Feel about Abortion: The Sometimes Surprising Poll Results.
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