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BY ROXY SZAL | Sixty percent of Americans believe the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which established the constitutional right to abortion, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. Just 27 percent believe it should be overturned.
About the same percentage—58 percent—oppose legislation like Texas Senate Bill 8, which makes it more difficult to obtain or perform an abortion.
When asked specifically about the Texas law, which bans abortions after six weeks gestation and is enforced by private vigilantes, an even larger percentage—65 percent—think the Supreme Court should reject the law. A whopping 75 percent of Americans think the decision whether or not a person should have an abortion “should be left to the woman and her doctor.”
The poll sheds light on public support for abortion in the run-up to oral arguments on Dec. 1 in the Supreme Court case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a direct challenge to precedent in both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.
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