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By the Supreme Court Arch The decision has returned to abortion in the states, the issue has played an important role in elections across the country with the choice to win most of them. At the Supreme Court Competition on April 1st of Wisconsin, the abortion was ahead and center of the only debate on the candidates. Before Elon Musk entered the competition, several analysts suggested that Susan Crawford, who ran to safeguard abortion, could only win the race only on this issue. According to a new collection by the state by the state from the Institute of Public Religion (PRRI), 67%of Wisconsin residents said that abortion should be legal in all cases (26%) or (41%).
PrRI has recently published a very useful report on abortions, examining not only Wisconsin but also in other states and DC. Their US values Atlas have compiled data from more than 22,000 interviews held in 2024, allowing them to examine individual state attitudes with confidence. PRRI uses the well -known four -part question about abortion that asks if it should be legal in all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in most cases or illegal to all.
This combination shows the spectrum of faith in the US on this highly charged issue. In 43 States and DC, half or more that abortion must be legal in all or most cases. In addition, Arkansas, Aidaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee came close to 50%. Support decreased below 45%in West Virginia (41%), Utah (44%) and Louisiana (42%). One bay separated these three states from Massachusetts, where 83% gave the legal one in all cases, as well as 80% in Vermond.
Looking especially at the extreme places in the question, the answers also vary. The lowest law response in all cases came to Louisiana (13%), West Virginia (14%) and Aidaho (14%). The highest response was in DC (44%), followed by Rhode Island (41%) and Vermond (40%). At the other end of the spectrum, “illegal in all cases” was usually in the single -digit. But more than 10%still gave this answer of fourteen states, with high levels in Nebraska (17%) and Mississippi and South Dakota at 14%.
Another way of evaluating the PRRI data per state comes from the combination of the two categories of “legal in some cases” and “illegal to some”. In this way, the majority in each state put themselves in the middle categories. These middle classes reflect greater ambiguity on the subject.
At national level, 26% in PRIRI 2024 polls supported legal abortion in all cases, from 18% in 2010, the first time PrRI asked the question. Thirty -seven percent wanted to be legal in most cases and 26% illegal in most cases. Eight percent, under 15% in 2010, said it should be illegal to everything. Pew’s religious landscape surveyheld in July 2023 and March 2024, found similar answers: 31% said it was legal in all, 32% legal in most, 24% illegal in most, 11% illegal. Pew warns that the results of the new research should be “carefully compared” to their previous research due to changes in their interview ways. In mind, support for legal abortion all or most cases increases to 63% from 53% in the 2014 landscape study.
As we approach the third anniversary of Arch The decision, the action on the legality of abortions will mostly be at a state level, although government spending and drug approval issues will be national. President Trump has distanced himself from the subject or blurs his positions, paying great importance to the state level. Although regional or state -owned attitudes have met in the US on many issues, states continue to have discreet political personalities in abortion, as the PRRI data show. Many, but not all, have moved to a more extensive view of legality in all or most cases.
