Poll: Majority of adults don't want Roe v. Wade overturned - WMTV – NBC15

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WMTV) - A majority of American adults say they do not support the Supreme Court completely overturning Roe v. Wade, according to new data from a poll by NBC News and SurveyMonkey.

Sixty-six percent of adults say that they don’t believe the Supreme Court should completely overturn the decision that established a woman’s right to an abortion in at least the first three months of a pregnancy. Twenty-nine percent of adults say they do want the Court to completely overturn the ruling.

The landmark 1973 decision found that a woman’s constitutional right to privacy protected their choice of whether to have an abortion, although it also allowed states to more heavily regulate abortion access after the first trimester.

Prior to the 1973 decision, states were largely unrestricted in their ability to regulate abortion access at any point in a pregnancy.

Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of preserving the decision — 86 percent say it should not be overturned while 12 percent believe Roe should be overturned.

Independents feel similarly — 71 percent want to preserve the ruling, while 25 percent want to see Roe overturned.

Republicans are virtually split, with 50 percent supporting a decision that would overturn Roe and 47 percent saying it should not be overturned.

This data comes after President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court seat left vacant after the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That nomination has sparked questions about whether a more conservative-leaning Court could re-examine issues like abortion – President Trump has said he would only nominate pro-life judges to sit on the Court.

In a 2013 article in the Texas Law Review, Barrett cited Roe v. Wade when she wrote, “If anything, the public response to controversial cases like Roe (v. Wade) reflects public rejection of the proposition that (precedent) can declare a permanent victor in a divisive constitutional struggle rather than desire that precedent remain forever unchanging.”

Barrett, however, has said that she doesn’t believe the Supreme Court would ever fully overturn abortion rights – rather, the Court may change how much power states have in regulating abortions.

During a speech at the University of Notre Dame in 2013, Barrett said, “The fundamental element, that the woman has a right to choose abortion, will probably stand.” And in 2016 she said, “I don’t think abortion or the right to abortion would change. I think some of the restrictions would change.”

After nominating Barrett, Trump said in a Fox and Friends interview that with Barrett on the Court, overturning Roe v. Wade was possible.

“It’s certainly possible. And maybe they do it in a different way. Maybe they’d give it back to the states. You just don’t know what’s going to happen,” he said.

Data come from a set of SurveyMonkey online polls conducted September 21-27, 2020 among a national sample of 48,241 adults in the U.S. Respondents were selected from the more than 2 million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. The modeled error estimate for this survey is plus or minus 1.0 percentage points. Data have been weighted for age, race, sex, education, and geography using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to reflect the demographic composition of the United States age 18 and over.

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