The poll arrives weeks ahead of the mid-election when abortion policies will be front and center.
Democrats and Republicans are divided on how abortion policy should be applied in the U.S. What’s more, those divisions exist clearly within members of both parties.
A majority of Democrats prefer a single national policy that’s consistent across all states, including 83% of liberal Democrats and 66% of moderate Democrats. Some 45% of moderate Republicans and 31% of conservative Republicans share that view. “We find that Americans who favor legal abortion in most or all cases tend to prefer a single national policy, while those who prefer that abortion remain illegal in most circumstances favor state-based policymaking,” wrote the co-authors of the report, Chris Karpowitz and Jeremy C. Pope, who are both professors at Brigham Young University.
Midterm elections The results are timely: The midterm elections are weeks away and abortion issues are expected to be front and center.