Poll: Abortion, women's rights grow as priorities

Name: Poll: Abortion, women's rights grow as priorities
Uploaded: 01 Jul 2022, 09:39:22 PM
Duration: 03:16
Channel: TIMESOFINDIA.COM

4 views | Jul 01, 2022, 09:39:22 PM | AP

A new poll finds a growing percentage of Americans calling out abortion or women's rights as priorities for the government in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, especially among Democrats and those who support abortion access. With midterm elections looming, President Joe Biden and Democrats will seek to capitalize on that shift. But with pervasive pessimism and a myriad of crises facing the nation, it's not clear whether the ruling will break through to motivate those voters — or just disappoint them. Twenty-two percent of U.S. adults name abortion or women's rights in an open-ended question as one of up to five problems they want the government to work on, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's more than doubled since December, when an AP-NORC poll found a notable uptick in mentions of abortion from years before, likely in anticipation of the Dobbs ruling on abortion.