Last month, a leaked document showed that the Supreme Court drafted a vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, a court case which has protected abortion rights for millions of Americans at the federal level for almost 50 years. Our poll shows that the majority of Americans surveyed disagree with this pending Supreme Court decision.
While states have been recently tightening their abortion rights, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, many more states are likely to ban or heavily restrict abortion. While the debate of abortion has largely been portrayed to be one between liberal and conservative, Democrat vs Republican, our survey reveals that a large percentage (40%) of people who feel Roe should be overturned still feel that abortion should be legal under some circumstances. Additionally, those who feel that Roe v. Wade should not be overturned are more likely to be moderate than liberal.
However, our study still confirms the general trend that democrats and liberals are more likely to favor Roe and having less restrictions on abortion while conservatives and republicans favor Roe being overturned and having more abortion restrictions.
Campaign Insights’ Realtime Polling surveys differ from traditional online surveys in that the questions are shown to the user on web pages in place of an ad. Unlike Google Surveys, which block access to content until the questions are answered, Realtime Polling surveys are optional, thus ensuring that participants are responding voluntarily.