Survey: Abortion and women’s rights, priorities in the US

A new survey found that a growing percentage of Americans mention the abortion or women’s rights as priorities for the government after the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade, especially among Democrats and those who support abortion access.

With the midterms just around the corner, President Joe Biden and the Democrats will be looking to capitalize on that shift.

The president of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in remarks just after the decision that “reproductive freedom is on the ballot in November,” But with pessimism widespread and the enormous crisis facing the nation, it’s unclear whether the ruling will motivate those voters or simply disappoint them.

“It feels like a huge setback,” said Lauren Nelson, a 26-year-old San Diego resident who said she worried about the environment her little niece will grow up in. Nelson doesn’t think the midterm elections will change the course the issue has taken.

“You can’t help but feel a little helpless, like there’s not much to do,” she said.

22% of American adults mentioned abortion or women’s rights in an open question as one of the five issues they would like the government to work on, according to the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That percentage has more than doubled since December, when an AP-NORC survey revealed a notable increase in mentions of abortion from previous years, likely in anticipation of the Dobbs ruling on abortion.

The new survey, which included interviews conducted before and after the Supreme Court ruling, shows that the prioritization of issues rose sharply after the decision.

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The failure of Dobbs returns abortion decision-making to state authorities. In the past week, Republican governors and legislatures have moved to introduce or promote laws that ban or restrict abortions.

Polls taken before the decision showed that he was unpopular with most Americans, who wanted the Court to leave Roe as it was. The majority of the country’s population supports abortion access in general, although many say there should be restrictions.

Claire Savage, an Associated Press/Report for America reporter in Chicago, and AP Writer Matt Sedensky in New York contributed to this report.

The AP-NORC survey conducted June 23-27 covered 1,053 adults with a sample taken from NORC’s AmeriSpeak probabilistic panel, designed to be representative of the US population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus/minus 4 percentage points.

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