A new Quinnipiac University poll found that two-thirds of voters think abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
According to the survey, 34% of American adults say abortion should be legal in all cases, and 32% say it should be legal in most cases. Quinnipiac University, a left-leaning polling organization, said support for legal abortion is at “the highest level in 20 years” in polling on the issue.
Conversely, 27 percent of voters think abortion should be illegal in most (22 percent) or all cases (5 percent).
By party affiliation, 58% of Democrats say abortion should be legal under all circumstances, compared to 30% of independents and 14% of Republicans. .
Thirty percent of Democrats say abortion should be legal in most cases, as do 31% of Republicans and 38% of independents.
Republicans are most likely to say abortion should be illegal in most (37%) or all cases (11%). Similarly, 22 percent of independents say abortion should be illegal in most cases, but just 1 percent say abortion should be banned in all cases. there were. Ten percent of Democrats say abortion should be illegal in most (7%) or all cases (3%).
A majority of white evangelicals say abortion should be illegal in most (45%) or all cases (12%). According to the survey, 34% say it should be legal in all cases (10%) or in most cases (24%).
Respondents were asked how they would react if a friend or family member told them they were planning an abortion.
“The majority (53%) would support her plan, but 32% would try to talk her out of it and 14% would not speak out,” the survey report said.
According to the survey, support was much higher when the woman was a victim of rape or incest, 80% to 13%, with 7% abstaining.
Overall, when respondents were asked what the most pressing issue facing the United States was, only 5 percent said abortion, 23 percent said the economy, 24 percent said immigration, and 18 percent said preserving democracy. I answered.
The survey was conducted from April 18 to 22, 2024 among 1,603 adults. The margin of sampling error is ±2.5 percentage points.
