Most people believe abortions should be legal in most or all cases during the first trimester, though a majority of people also believe that they shouldn’t be allowed later during a woman’s pregnancy, a national poll found.
Abortion should be legal in “all” or “most cases,” said 61% of respondents in an Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll Friday, while 36% believe they should be illegal during “most” or “all cases.”
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Abortions should be barred in most cases after the first trimester, the majority of the 1,125 respondents said.
The procedure should be legal in “all” or “most cases” during the second trimester, 34% of respondents said, and that percentage drops to 19% during the third and final trimester.
A majority, 54%, of those polled said third-trimester abortions should be illegal in “all cases.”
A majority of Republicans are against allowing abortions at all during pregnancy, with 41% believing that the procedure should be permitted during the first trimester.
A majority of Democrats believe that abortions should be allowed in the first and second trimesters, while 28% support abortions during the final trimester.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported data in 2018 that showed slightly more than 92% of all abortions took place before 13 weeks — or approximately within the first trimester. Less than 7% of abortions occurred in the second trimester, and only about 1% of them took place during the final trimester of the pregnancy.
The poll’s overall margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4.2 percentage points, and the survey was conducted from June 10 to June 14.
