The share of Democrats who want abortion to be a priority in 2022 is more than 13 times higher than in 2021.
Democratic interest in making abortion rights a priority has surged in 2022 compared with the years before, according to a Associated Press/NORC
, as lawmakers across the country already kick off the year with new measures that would both restrict and expand access to the procedure ahead of the Supreme Court potentially overturning Roe v. Wade.Getty Images for Women's March Inc13% of Democrats listed abortion or reproductive rights as one of the top five issues they want the federal government to address in 2022, the AP/NORC poll, conducted December 2-7 among 1,089 U.S. adults, found.
That’s up from less than 1% of Democrats who prioritized abortion in 2021 and 3% who listed it in 2020, though it still ranks behind other issues like Covid-19, the economy, healthcare and gun control, the AP noted. Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify abortion rights into federal law in order to override state-level restrictions on the procedure.a bill Tuesday that bans the procedure after 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
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