Reminder to SCOTUS: Only about a third of Americans support overturning Roe
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Warning signs flashed red on Wednesday during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court over a Mississippi abortion ban. Based on the tenor of the justices' questioning, the consideration at hand quickly evolved from whether the high court's extremeReminder to SCOTUS: Only about a third of Americans support overturning Roe
Warning signs flashed red on Wednesday during oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court over a Mississippi abortion ban. Based on the tenor of the justices' questioning, the consideration at hand quickly evolved from whether the high court's extreme majority would uphold the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision to how quickly it would dismantle the legal precedent that has guided abortion law nationwide for nearly half a century. As a baseline, Gallup has been polling attitudes over Roe for over three decades and has never found support for overturning Roe to be higher than roughly a third of Americans. In May 2021, just 32% of respondents favored overturning the law. Read more