The time before Roe v. WadeMost Americans today weren't alive before 1973, when the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, and many who were alive back then can't remember the reality of illegal abortion. Whereas before Roe, women found information hard to come by, now there is the internet. I asked CNN's polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy what the polling data says about abortion both before and after Roe v. Wade and how those opinions have influenced elections. Fewer favored legal abortion in cases where a low-income family couldn't afford more children (46%), a pregnant woman was unmarried and didn't wish to marry (41%) or a married woman didn't want more children (38%). There are some early signs that a blow to abortion access could be particularly motivational to abortion rights supporters, but it's less clear how that might manifest.

Source: CNN June 18, 2022 02:55 UTC