Share of women voters that support the Roe vs. Wade decision by party 2018

Published by John Elflein, Dec 5, 2019

This statistic depicts the percentage of U.S. voters that would support the government overturning Roe vs. Wade as of 2018, by political party. According to the data, 68 percent of all women do not support overturning Roe vs. Wade. Roe vs. Wade was a U.S. Supreme Court case which established women's constitutional right to have an abortion.

Percentage of U.S. women voters that would or would not support the government overturning of the Supreme Courts decision on Roe vs. Wade as of 2018

	Yes, overturn	No, do not overturn
Total women	28%	68%
Democrat/Democratic-leaning	14%	83%
Republican/Republican-leaning	49%	48%

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July 2018

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United States

Survey time period

June 11 to 20, 2018

Method of interview

Online survey

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* Don't know/refused respondents not shown.

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