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The May 2022 Mood of the Nation Poll finds that Americans are nearly evenly divided on the legality of abortion:
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53% indicate that abortion should be legal, including the 23% who indicate that it should be legal “most of the time.”
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36% indicate that abortion should be illegal “except in cases of rape, incest and to save the mother’s life.”
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12% indicate that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.
Read the full report from APM Research Lab.