by Hannah Bleau at Breitbart News
The survey asked, “How would a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade affect abortion laws?” It provided two options: “Make it so individual states can establish laws banning abortion” and “make it so that abortion is illegal in all of the United States” — the latter being a common misconception.
Most Americans, 74 percent, realize that overturning Roe would simply kick the decision back to the states, but over a quarter, 26 percent, believe it would make abortion illegal across the U.S.
According to the survey, independents are the most likely to believe that overturning the decision would make abortion completely illegal — 31 percent. Twenty-seven percent of Democrats and 20 percent of Republicans say the same. However, most across the board — 80 percent of Republicans, 69 percent of independents, and 73 percent of Democrats — know that overturning the 1973 decision would allow abortion laws to instead be placed in the hands of each individual state:…
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