Record number of voters consider abortion a dealbreaker: Poll

David Zimmermann

June 21, 12:53 PM June 21, 12:53 PM

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Nearly a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion remains an important issue among voters, to the point that many won’t support candidates who don’t share their personal views, according to a newly released survey.

Twenty-eight percent of registered voters, regardless of their views, said they will only vote for politicians who agree with their own stance on abortion, the Gallup poll revealed. This number is 1% higher than last year’s results.

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Abortion is just one of many factors for 56% of the respondents, and the remaining 14% don’t care about the politically divisive issue at all.

Gallup broke down the 28% into pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion categories, finding those who support abortion rights consider the issue a massive dealbreaker in elections more than those who oppose abortion rights. Seventeen percent who identified as pro-abortion rights said they will only support candidates with similar views, and 10% who identified as anti-abortion rights said they will do the same.

“The diminished pro-life segment of the electorate is less energized on the issue than they have been previously, indicating that the desire to see laws changed is more motivating to voters than wanting current laws maintained,” Gallup Director of U.S. Social Research Lydia Saad wrote in the press release.

Saad further explained that this was the reason why many abortion bans weren’t signed into state constitutions in the last year and why the 2022 midterm election wasn’t as affected by the issue despite its rising importance among voters.

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Additionally, women are much more likely to call abortion their most important issue compared to men. Twenty-two percent of pro-abortion rights voters who said this are women while 11% are men, and the gender gap among anti-abortion rights voters who hold the same conviction is much closer, with 11% female and 9% male support.

The Gallup poll surveyed a random sample of 1,011 adults in May and has a 4% margin of error.