KFF Health Tracking Poll: Views on and Knowledge about Abortion in Wake of Leaked Supreme Court Opinion
Findings
States that have enacted trigger bans or have a pre-Roe ban include: AL, AZ, AR, ID, KY, LA, MS, MO, ND, OK, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WI, WY. While Michigan has a pre-Roe abortion ban on its books, a Michigan judge recently blocked this law while litigation challenging the law as violating the Michigan State Constitution proceeds.
Data and research often assume cisgender identities and may not systematically account for people who are transgender and non-binary. This survey aims to be as inclusive as possible, allowing non-binary and transgender individuals to answer questions that best reflect their identity.
The Wesleyan Media Project finds that after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion, the number of U.S. House, Senate and gubernatorial ads mentioning abortion increased substantially, with 22% of pro-Democratic House ads and 24.5% of pro-Republican House ads mentioning abortion in the week following the opinion leak, up from 6.2% and 13.5% the week prior to the leak respectively.
States that have enacted trigger bans or have a pre-Roe ban include: AL, AZ, AR, ID, KY, LA, MS, MO, ND, OK, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WI, WY. While Michigan has a pre-Roe abortion ban on its books, a Michigan judge recently blocked this law while litigation challenging the law as violating the Michigan State Constitution proceeds.
States that have enacted protections for the right to an abortion: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, NV, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA, DC.
Laws in AZ, AR, MO, LA, TX, and WV specifically ban telehealth for abortion consultations. ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, NC, and SC “have enacted laws that require the clinician providing a medication abortion to be physically present during the procedure, effectively prohibiting the use of telehealth to dispense medication for abortion remotely.” All other states allow telehealth to be used for dispensing medication abortion in line with FDA regulations. See more from a KFF fact sheet on medication abortion here.