A new survey finds that while the major political parties remain divided on abortion, US women are fairly aligned.
Most women between the ages of 18 and 49 support a national right to abortion, oppose a national ban on the procedure, and don’t believe abortion rights should be left up to individual states, according to aMajorities of Democratic and independent women oppose restrictions and support a law enshrining a national abortion right, the poll found; so do almost half of all Republican women.
About 8 percent of those who identified as “pro-life” said they had had an abortion, compared to about 17 percent of those who identified as pro-choice. But the numbers were remarkably similar across Republicans, Democrats and independents: 12 percent, 14 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Of those who said they or someone they know has struggled to get an abortion in the past two years, most reported that the affected person had traveled out of state for care.
Responses from some of the people surveyed underscore the difficulty of lining up all the resources needed to get care. When asked why she could not receive an abortion, one respondent said it was because she was “unable to afford the procedure” and that by the time she could have raised the money, she would have been too far along in her pregnancy. Another said she could not afford to go out of state. Another wrote: “I lived an hour and a half from the location and my ride didn’t show up.
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