Support for abortion rights grows, latest poll shows
The poll found that 58% of US adults said abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 50% who said that in a similar poll in July 2018
New York — Americans have become more supportive of abortion rights over the past year, even as a wave of Republican-controlled state governments have imposed new restrictions, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday. The poll found that 58% of US adults said abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 50% who said that in a similar poll that ran in July 2018. While support broke down along partisan lines, passions were higher among registered Democrats, with 81% saying abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 55% of registered Republicans said it should be illegal in most or all cases. In 2019, eight Republican-led states have passed new restrictions on abortion, measures that activists said are aimed at provoking the US Supreme Court to reconsider the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy. Anti-abortion campaigners are counting on the new 5-4 conservative majority on the court, following two appoin...
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