42% of Americans say the overturning of Roe v. Wade has increased deaths of pregnant women; 4% say deaths have decreased

Jamie Ballard
July 18, 2025

About three years after the Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade — which had established the federal constitutional right to abortion before being overturned — a new YouGov survey finds that an increasing number of Americans believe abortion should always be legal. Around half believe that the decision caused the number of pregnant women denied care during an emergency to increase.

The share of Americans who believe abortion should always be legal and there should be no restrictions on it has increased since August 2024, to 32% from 27%. Among Democrats, 59% believe abortion should always be legal, up from 48% last August. The share of Independents who say abortion should always be legal has increased to 33% from 22%. (Other YouGov polling has found that over a longer time period, views on this question have been mostly stable.)

Continued: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52616-42-percent-americans-say-overturning-roe-v-wade-increased-deaths-pregnant-women-4-percent-say-deaths-decreased-poll

18.07.2025

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Majority of Lithuanians support abortion coverage by state insurance – survey

Karolina Ambrazaitytė, BNS
2 July 2025

Six in 10 Lithuanians support full or partial state funding for abortion services, according to a recent poll commissioned by BNS and conducted by the public opinion and market research centre Vilmorus.

The survey found that 30.2% of respondents believe abortion should be fully funded in all cases, while 32.4% support funding only under exceptional circumstances, such as rape or medical indications. Another 24.1% had no opinion, and the remaining respondents opposed the idea.

Continued: https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2600996/majority-of-lithuanians-support-abortion-coverage-by-state-insurance-survey

02.07.2025

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USA – An Overwhelming Majority of Voters Want Hospitals to Provide Medically Necessary Abortions in All States

By Matthew Cortland
Jan 8, 2024

Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it will decide whether federal law permits hospitals to perform emergency “medically necessary” abortions in states that prohibit abortion.

… A new Data for Progress survey finds that an overwhelming majority of voters (85%) across party lines support a rule requiring all U.S. hospitals to provide an emergency abortion when it is “medically necessary.” This includes 89% of Democrats, 88% of Independents, and 77% of Republicans.

Continued: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/1/8/an-overwhelming-majority-of-voters-want-hospitals-to-provide-medically-necessary-abortions-in-all-states

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Where does the British public stand on abortion in 2023?

Abortion is widely supported in the UK

Matthew Smith, Head of Data Journalism
October 12, 2023

While recent events in the USA demonstrate that the abortion debate there is far from settled, a new YouGov UK poll shows a very different situation here.

On the basic question of whether or not abortion should be allowed, 87% of Britons say that it should, compared to only 6% who say it should not – 7% are unsure. Attitudes among men and women are identical in this regard.

Continued: https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/47568-where-does-the-british-public-stand-on-abortion-in-2023

12.10.2023

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USA – Total abortion bans are not at all popular, poll finds

The latest 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds that Americans often hold contradictory views on restrictions on abortion, highlighting the complexity of finding consensus on the issue.

Shefali Luthra, Health Reporter
September 18, 2023

Only 9 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances even as 14 states are enforcing near-total bans on the procedure, the 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll has found.

Past polling has frequently found that people hold sometimes confusing and conflicting opinions about abortion, and this poll is no different: Some of those who say they support completely outlawing the procedure still believe abortion should be allowed in at least some circumstances.

Continued: https://19thnews.org/2023/09/poll-abortion-americans-complex-views/

18.09.2023

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Global views on abortion

A majority across 29 countries believe abortion should be legal in at least most cases.

22 August 2023

More than one in two (56%) across 29 countries believe abortion should be legal, including more than one in four (27%) who feel it should be legal in all cases.

Support for abortion is highest in Europe, with Sweden and France having the highest level of sentiment in believing abortion should be legal (87% and 82% respectively).

Continued: https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/global-views-abortion

22.08.2023

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USA – The abortion issue backfires on Republicans

Aug 19, 2023
Steve Roberts

The next election is more than 14 months away, but every analyst who studies the data is coming to the same conclusion: That contest — a likely rerun between Joe Biden and Donald Trump — will be very close. Democrats start with a small advantage in the electoral map, but the latest national polls show the two contenders in a dead heat.

As Ronald Brownstein notes on CNN, all signs “point toward a 2024 presidential contest that will likely be decided by a tiny sliver of voters in a rapidly shrinking list of swing states realistically within reach for either party.” Kyle Kondik, who runs Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, tells Spectrum News: “As of right now, we’re sort of expecting a lot of continuity from 2016 and 2020 in 2024.”

Continued: https://www.goshennews.com/opinion/steven-roberts-the-abortion-issue-backfires-on-republicans/article_363ef688-3df2-11ee-afff-ff8d67cb4d03.html

19.08.2023

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CNN Poll: Abortion’s role as an electoral litmus test hasn’t faded a year after Supreme Court decision overturning Roe

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN
Tue August 8, 2023

Americans’ discontent with the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade remains as potent as it was a year ago, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with a record-high share of the public saying that they’re likely to take a candidate’s position on abortion into consideration when voting.

A 64% majority of US adults say they disapprove of last year’s Supreme Court ruling that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion, with half strongly disapproving – an assessment that’s almost entirely unchanged from CNN’s poll last July in the immediate wake of the decision.

Continued: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-electoral-litmus-test-supreme-court/index.html

08.08.2023

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Brazilians divided over abortion and the right to bear arms

July 3, 2023
Nation World News Desk

Brazilians are at a crossroads, divided over abortion rights, disapproved by 52%, and possession of weapons, supported by 50%, some very progressive on some issues (75% approve of homosexuality ) and conservatives on others (72% disapprove that environmental legislation slows down agriculture).

This is the picture of the country’s society, according to a comprehensive poll released by demoscopic firm Datafolha just nine months after the most polarized elections in Brazil’s history in which progressive Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won by less than two percentage points Was. Far-right Jair Bolsonaro.

Continued: https://nationworldnews.com/brazilians-divided-over-abortion-and-the-right-to-bear-arms/

03.07.2023

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Majority of Kenyans against abortion, new study shows

Monday, July 03, 2023
By Angela Oketch, Health and Science reporter

Nine out of 10 Kenyan adults say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, a new study shows.

A 24-country study by the Pew Research Center found that attitudes varied widely across countries, with religiously unaffiliated adults, people on the ideological left and women more likely to support legal abortion.

Continued: https://nation.africa/kenya/health/majority-of-kenyans-against-abortion-new-study-shows-4291138

03.07.2023