Yesterday, the Pew Research Center released a new report on public attitudes toward legal abortion. The Report (full text) is titled Broad Public Support for Legal Abortion Persists 2 Years After Dobbs. The Center's Summary of the Report says in part:
About six-in-ten (63%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This share has grown 4 percentage points since 2021 – the year prior to the 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe....
A narrow majority of Americans (54%) say the statement “the decision about whether to have an abortion should belong solely to the pregnant woman” describes their views extremely or very well. Another 19% say it describes their views somewhat well, and 26% say it does not describe their views well.
... About a third of Americans (35%) say the statement “human life begins at conception, so an embryo is a person with rights” describes their views extremely or very well, while 45% say it does not describe their views well....
Americans say medication abortion should be legal rather than illegal by a margin of more than two-to-one (54% vs. 20%). A quarter say they are not sure.
A second report concludes:
Seven-in-ten adults say IVF access is a good thing. Just 8% say it is a bad thing, while 22% are unsure.
