Are We Overestimating Roe's Impact on Politics? | Cook Political Report

May 13, 2022 View Original Article
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"Another 17 percent thought abortion should be legal most of the time."
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"An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in late April indicated that 26 percent felt that abortion should be legal in all cases and another 33 percent felt it should be legal in most cases -- for a total of 59 percent who support abortion rights on some level."
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"Twenty-seven percent selected Abortion should always be legal."
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Another 17 percent thought abortion "should be legal most of the time."
46% : An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in late April indicated that 26 percent felt that abortion should be legal in all cases and another 33 percent felt it should be legal in most cases -- for a total of 59 percent who support abortion rights on some level.
45% : Twenty-seven percent selected "Abortion should always be legal."
43% : Overturning Roe would not prohibit or even make more restrictive the accessibility of abortion in all states, but instead would kick it back to each of the states to set their own laws.
36% : Twenty-five percent said that abortion "would likely not become any harder to get," while 23 percent were "not sure how the availability of abortions would be affected.
34% : On the other side, 43 percent chose the option that abortion "should always be illegal except under certain circumstances, such as rape, incest or to save the life of the mother," and 11 percent thought the procedure "should always be illegal."When CNN asked a national sample of adults what impact a reversal of Roe v. Wade would have "in the area where you live," 22 percent said that abortion "would likely be banned completely," and another 30 percent thought abortions "would likely become harder to get but not completely banned."
33% : According to the Guttmacher Institute, considered a definitive source on information about abortion, 22 states are all but certain to ban abortion, and another four are likely to do so.

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