Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: More than half of Illinois voters want abortion to stay legal -- a little over a third do not

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : According to the poll, those who supported keeping abortion legal overwhelmingly voted for Democrat Joe Biden for president in 2020, tended to be women and skewed younger.
44% : "The other side of the coin is maybe the father wants the baby." Organizations for and against abortion say there's a lot at stake in November's election, even in a blue state such as Illinois.
43% : He said he thinks groups like his that are opposed to abortion have somewhat hit a ceiling when it comes to adding more people to voter rolls.
42% : With three weeks to go before the Nov. 8 general election, abortion has been a hot-button issue in races up and down the Illinois ballot, from governor to legislators to the Illinois Supreme Court.
41% : Illinois' rights to abortion are already protected in a state law dubbed the Reproductive Health Act, which in 2019 established a "fundamental" right to abortion, requires health insurers to cover the procedure and safeguards abortion providers from criminal or civil sanctions.
40% : Angela Lee, 57, of south suburban Matteson chose abortion as the most important issue to her, above crime, the economy and a half dozen other issues.
38% : She points to the referendum in deeply Republican Kansas, where voters rejected a proposed amendment that said there was no right to abortion.
35% : About 52% of likely voters polled said abortion should be legal in most or all cases, with 36% saying it should be illegal, and 12% unsure.
31% : Respondents who live in the collar counties or downstate were more likely than Chicagoans to say abortion should be mostly or completely illegal.
29% : As states around the nation adopt stricter restrictions on abortion with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, more than half of Illinois voters say abortion should remain legal here, according to a new Chicago Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll.
17% : Stanley Klimek, 78, of west suburban Glen Ellyn, responded in the poll that abortion should be mostly illegal, but told WBEZ his views on abortion don't impact how he votes.

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