The Supreme Court struck down key provisions in a strict Texas abortion law on June 27 that could have a ripple effect nationwide. Monday's court decision knocked abortion opponents back a few hundred yards — but the competing armies will likely remain largely intact. The Texas law, the justices found, posed "a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions" by mandating certain provisions from abortion providers that were often too costly to meet. Pew Research asks a similar question: Should abortion be legal in all or most cases or illegal in all or most cases? What's interesting about the fight over the Texas law, though, is two things: first, that most Texans don't name abortion as a top political priority, and second, that attitudes on the legality of abortion have remained relatively consistent for decades.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 15:47 UTC