The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in a case that challenged a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The ruling flies in the face of public opinion; according to PRRI’s March 2022 poll, only 36% of Americans support overturning Roe while 61% believe that Roe should remain the law of the land. …
Banning abortion, which may indeed become the new law of the land for many states in the country with Roe overturned, simply does not have close to majority support nationally — and never has. Looking at PRRI data over the past decade, most Americans say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Only 9% say that abortion should be illegal in all cases in the March 2022 data, and over the past decade that has not been higher than one in five. CONTINUED
Melissa Deckman (Washington College), Public Religion Research Institute
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