Vast majority of Republicans support abortion exceptions for rape, incest and mother's health
A month before the midterm elections, most Americans say abortion is important to their vote.
A month before the midterm elections, most Americans say abortion is important to their vote. And while the two parties are deeply divided on the issue, a new survey shows broad bipartisan support for abortion rights in cases of rape, incest and when the mother’s health is seriously endangered.
Eight in 10 American adults say abortion is important to their vote in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, including a 56% majority who say it is very important, according to a Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES)/SurveyMonkey survey released Monday of nearly 22,000 American adults.
Ninety percent of Americans who identify as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 78 % of independents and 74 % of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans say abortion matters at the voting booth.
Even as Republican-led states have enacted abortion bans in more than a dozen states across the country since the court's decision in June, there is strong bipartisan support for exceptions, including among more than three-quarters of Republicans.
Eighty-six percent of Americans of all parties think a pregnant woman should be able to legally have an abortion if she becomes pregnant because of rape or incest, the PORES/SurveyMonkey survey found. That includes 94 % of Democrats, 88 % of independents and 76 % of Republicans.
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