Here's what Pennsylvania voters think about abortion, according to polls

[modrepub]

With the Supreme Court appearing poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion access could soon be left up to individual states.

Abortion in Pennsylvania is currently legal up to about the 24th week of pregnancy. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, state law could be changed by elected officials in Harrisburg to include tighter restrictions or even a total ban.

Like much of the state’s politics, Pennsylvanians’ opinions on abortion span a wide range but largely mirror national trends, according to a review of public polls. The majority of Pennsylvanians support some access to abortion. But while politicians in both parties have migrated to polar opposite positions on the issue, surveys show the majority of voters fall somewhere in the middle — favoring some limitations but not far-reaching restrictions.

Support for abortion has increased slightly over the last decade, according to Franklin & Marshall College, which has regularly polled on the issue since 2009.

In April 2022, 31% of registered Pennsylvania voters said abortion should be legal in all circumstances, compared with 18% in June 2009.

The majority of voters (53% in April) say abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, a number that hasn’t moved much since 2009, when it was 58%.

The proportion of Pennsylvanians who say abortion should be illegal in all circumstances has decreased, from 22% in 2009 to 16% in April.

Democrats favor abortion access more than Republicans do. In a 2020 TargetSmart poll conducted for the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund, which advocates for abortion access, 86% of Democrats, 61% of independents and 41% of Republicans said they wanted abortion to remain legal.

Read more at: https://www.centredaily.com/news/state/article261065097.html#storylink=cpy


More noise here. This issue counts for real in November.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Pennsylvanians are extremely status quo

Only the Philadelphia suburbs move back and forth a bit. Local politicians with incumbency have a better than even chance at lifetime jobs. The worst scoundrels are still seen as "our guy". Pennsylvanians put their pols on a political pedestal simply because they've been there a while, or they're local, or some such. Maybe it's all the lobbying groups and trade associations who get the laws they want, which is what community leaders want, and the pols deliver. There is not any political wind that would flip more than 5% of seats at the state level, in my opinion.

[Freddie]

2. Correct

For some reason the state legislature gets re-elected in perpetuity no matter what they do. Mine, for instance, tried to have our votes discarded like used Kleenex, and sends out a folksy newsletter about all the Boy Scout troops he sponsors and other such local things. And people can’t see through “he only cares about local issues” to notice he goes back to Harrisburg and toes the RWNJ party line.