President Joe Biden speaks throughout an occasion in Virginia on Jan. 23, to marketing campaign for abortion rights, a prime issue for Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.
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President Joe Biden speaks throughout an occasion in Virginia on Jan. 23, to marketing campaign for abortion rights, a prime issue for Democrats in the upcoming presidential election.
Susan Walsh/AP
Democratic voters are more and more supportive of abortion rights, and more and more motivated by the issue, in accordance with a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute.
The survey discovered that a rising variety of Democrats level to abortion as a prime voting issue because the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization choice, which allowed abortion restrictions to take impact across the nation.
“So the salience of abortion as an issue is really different for Democratic voters this election cycle,” PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman stated. “And of course, it’s a direct reflection of the political landscape and the policy landscape in the wake of Dobbs.“
It additionally discovered a “growing gap” between Republicans and Democrats in their views on abortion, Deckman stated.
Most of that partisan hole stems from rising help for abortion rights amongst Democrats over the previous decade or more, whereas Republican views have remained largely secure, she stated. In the brand new report, 86% of Democratic voters surveyed in 2023 expressed help for abortion rights, up from 71% of Democrats in 2010. The ballot additionally discovered rising help amongst unbiased voters.
Those findings align with the outcomes of exit polls from elections because the Dobbs choice in 2022. Since then, voters in a number of states have repeatedly signaled support for abortion rights, and a rising quantity have listed abortion as a prime voting issue.
Like different surveys in the previous, PRRI’s ballot discovered that abortion was a significantly motivating issue for girls and youthful voters ages 18 to 29, and even more markedly for youthful Democrats.
Nationwide, 64% % of voters stated abortion needs to be all the time or principally authorized; 35% stated it needs to be all the time or principally unlawful. In most states – together with states with Republican-controlled state governments – a majority of voters help authorized abortion, and only a few favor whole bans.
“In no state does anywhere near a majority of state residents support the banning of abortions, yet we have a policy landscape in which some states have effectively made the procedure almost impossible to access,” Deckman defined.
“So the policies that are being enacted in many red-state legislatures where Republicans control majorities, are clearly out of step with what the citizens in those states would like to see,” she stated.