A new Wall Street Journal poll shows more Americans are getting behind six-week abortion bans like the one that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed into law in the Sunshine State.
When asked if they favored or opposed banning all abortions after six weeks except in the cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother, 41% of respondents supported the six-week abortion ban. The results indicate Americans have moved further toward the pro-life position, and cast doubt on claims that such a stance will hurt conservatives in national elections.
“At no point in the history of Gallup’s polling on this issue did it find 41 support for a ban on abortion before twelve weeks,” Charles W. Cooke of National Review pointed out, noting Gallup had asked that question of respondents for years, and roughly two-thirds of Americans had typically thought that abortion should be legal in the first trimester. Read more…
