Poll: Most Americans want to vote on abortion rights at the state level

Abortion rights activists at the Supreme Court.
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A majority of Americans want to vote on abortion on their state ballot, a new Ipsos/USA Today poll found.

The survey, released Wednesday, shows that 7 in 10 Americans, regardless of their party affiliation, want to vote on an abortion-related state ballot measure. Broken down, 73 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of Republicans, and 67 percent of independents supported the idea of voting on abortion. The poll also found that 54 percent of Americans would vote in favor of abortion legality and 28 percent would vote against it.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.