Abortion Bans Are Top of Mind for Young Women in North Carolina as They Consider Harris or Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Standing outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic, armed with bags of snacks and anti-abortion pamphlets for those walking into the facility, 45-year-old Laura Browne tried to persuade women to talk to her instead.
48% : Inflation has 20-year-old Wake Forest student Leyla Herrera considering a vote for Trump in her first presidential election.
43% : Abortion comes up, she said, but not as much as worries about the cost of housing or everyday items.
40% : Abortion may resonate deepest with younger women, but they're also a historically unreliable voting bloc, said Linda L. Petrou, a longtime Forsyth County Republican and district chair.
37% : Abortion was a top issue for just 3% of North Carolina voters in 2020, with nearly all of them backing Trump and his promise to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the high court ruling that had guaranteed a woman's right to abortion for nearly half a century.
36% : Vice President Kamala Harris could narrowly win if just a fraction of white women decide to support her instead of Trump, who took North Carolina by just 1.3 percentage points in 2020, Trump's narrowest margin of victory.
25% : But after voting for Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections, she describes his recent remarks as "a lot of crazy.

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