Disapproval for the Supreme Court continues to climb following the news that the court may be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states the ability to ban abortions, according to the results of a new University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll released today.
Conducted after the draft majority opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked to the media, the national poll of 1,000 respondents age 18 and older found 54% disapprove of the job the court is doing, up from 51% disapproval in a December 2021 UMass Poll and 43% in an April 2021 UMass Poll. …
Fully half (50%) of Americans believe the Supreme Court should let the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade stand, according to the new poll, while slightly more than one-third (34%) want the court to overturn Roe. A plurality of the poll’s respondents – 45% – want to see Congress pass a law legalizing abortion in all 50 states, while just 15% want the legislative branch of government to make the procedure illegal nationally and 39% want Congress to pass no law on the issue and leave the decision on abortion up to individual states to legislate within their own borders. CONTINUED
University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll
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