More than 60 percent of Americans said in a new poll that they believe the Supreme Court should uphold the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the U.S.
The ABC News-Washington Post poll released Monday found 62 percent of respondents said they believe the court should uphold Roe, compared to 24 percent who said the ruling should be overturned and 14 percent with no opinion.
Majorities of both women (66 percent) and men (58 percent) said the decision should be upheld. Seventy-five percent of both political moderates and respondents with no religious preference also supported upholding it.
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Even larger majorities among respondents with postgraduate degrees (83 percent) and those self-identifying as liberals and Democrats (81 percent) supported upholding the decision. Among self-identified conservatives, only 37 percent supported upholding the decision, while slightly more Republicans, 40 percent, supported upholding it.
Forty-four percent of evangelical Protestants supported upholding it, as did 51 percent of people with no education beyond high school.
Although the survey also found that a narrow majority said they want the winner of the November presidential election to appoint Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader GinsburgSchumer: Trump’s Supreme Court nominee should recuse from health care, election cases Amy Coney Barrett to tell senators: Courts ‘should not try’ to make policy Hirono commits to avoiding ‘irrelevant’ questions about Barrett’s religion during her confirmation hearing MORE’s replacement to the Supreme Court, a wider margin of those who want Roe upheld believed the same.
Among registered voters who say the court should uphold Roe, 68 percent oppose the Senate taking up Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination. Meanwhile, 71 percent of those who support overturning Roe say the nomination should proceed. Barrett’s confirmation hearings are scheduled to start on Monday.
Barrett’s position on the 1973 decision has come under scrutiny. While she told the Senate this weekend that justices should not make policy, she failed to disclose that she had signed a paid ad criticizing the decision.
Pollsters surveyed 879 registered voters from Oct. 6 to 9, with a sample including 32 percent Democrats, 29 percent Republicans and 34 percent independents. The survey has a 3.5-point margin of sampling error.