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Positions on Abortion

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on last Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion. This is really disheartening. After some search, I found a pretty comprehensive page by YouGov covering the results on many abortion related polls. I am going to visualization people’s position on if abortion should be legal or illegle this week.

My Visualization

This visualization shows how different group of people have divergent opinions on abortion.

Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

Dashboard link

Insights

  • Around half of the US adults believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases in their states, 35% said the opposite, and the remaining being unclear;
  • Comparing men and women, men slightly more lean towards ‘illegal’ than women;
  • But the difference between gender is much small than the difference among different political groups – 74% of the Democrats believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases in their states, but only 29% of the Republicans think the same.

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