NBC/WSJ Poll: Record-High Support for Abortion in All Cases

While Americans are increasingly supportive of abortion being legal in all cases, there is some hardening of the partisan divide on the issue, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Americans who believe abortion should be legal most of the time is up to a record-high 56%, which is 7 percentage points greater than 2008, and those numbers reflect increases across a number of demographics, including Republicans, according to NBC News.

Among the increases since '08:

• Men 2 points.
• Women 11 points.
• Democrats 13 points.
• Republicans 4 points.

The hardening of views, amid recent red states strengthening their laws against abortions, is shown through the percentage of those who say abortion should be illegal without exceptions: 12%. That is 5 percentage points higher than in '08, according to the report.

Among the results in the poll:

• 58% of "core Democrats" want abortion to always be legal – up 8 percentage points since March 2018.
• 27% of "core Republicans" want abortion to be illegal without exception – up 9 percentage points since March '18.

The poll was conducted among 1,000 adults and 825 registered voters between June 8-11. The margin of error among adults was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points and plus or minus 3.4 percentage points among registered voters.

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