The number has grown most significantly in states that implemented bans or new restrictions on abortion after the Dobbs decision last year.
Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in the wake of the court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesThe number of adults living in states where abortion is banned or restricted who believe that access to abortion should be easier has grown since 2019, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.decision last year, 43 percent of adults said they believe it should be easier to get an abortion where they live, compared to 31 percent in 2019.
Overall support for abortion is also up since 1995, according to the report, but most of that change comes from an increase in support from Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. The percentage of adults who believe it would be somewhat easy or very easy to get an abortion where they live is down to 54 percent, from 65 percent in 2019. In 1995, 63 percent of Democrats and those leaning Democratic said abortion should be legal in all or most cases; in 2023, that number was up to 84 percent. Republican support for abortion saw a much smaller increase in support, up to 40 percent in 2023 from 39 percent in 1995.
Abortion access has become a defining issue in elections across the country, spreading into local races like the one for a
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