New poll: Strong support for abortion restrictions and big misunderstandings of Roe

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Half of the registered voters in a recent poll support banning abortion at six weeks into pregnancy except for victims of rape and incest. Nearly three-fourths would support a 15-week abortion ban, the very law upheld in the landmark Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson.

In the largest survey since Dobbs, the case in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Harris Poll and Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies asked 1,300 registered voters what abortion laws they would want in their own state.

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