Because the presidential election inches nearer, abortion entry is steadily turning into a extra vital situation for American voters, particularly amongst younger girls.
KFF ballot findings launched Friday present that 4 in 10 girls youthful than 30 say abortion is crucial situation behind their vote this November, nearly twice as many who mentioned so in June.
The findings are from a follow-up to KFF’s “Survey of Women Voters” performed in June. KFF polled 1,383 registered girls by way of on-line and phone surveys for 2 weeks on the finish of Might and the start of June. At the moment, Biden was nonetheless the Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential election.
In July, Biden abruptly ended his reelection marketing campaign after a poor June presidential debate in opposition to the Republican nominee, former President Trump. After withdrawing, Biden endorsed Vice President Harris.
KFF polled practically half of the identical registered feminine voters in September to gauge public opinion after Harris accepted the Democratic nomination.
In these three months, abortion entry surpassed inflation as crucial situation this election amongst younger feminine voters, in keeping with KFF ballot findings.
General, girls look like extra motivated to vote now that Harris is the Democratic nominee for president, in keeping with the September outcomes. The share of ladies who say they’re motivated to vote this November in comparison with previous presidential elections elevated from 45 % in June to 64 % in September.
That is notably true for ladies who’re registered Democrats — 36 % of Democratic feminine voters who took half within the KFF ballot in June mentioned they had been extra motivated to vote on this presidential election than in previous ones. That quantity skyrocketed to 75 % in September.
However registered Republican feminine voters are much less happy with their presidential choices than they had been in June, and they’re solely barely extra motivated to vote this November.
In June, 53 % of Republican feminine voters who took half within the KFF ballot mentioned they had been extra motivated to vote this November than in different presidential elections. In September, 61 % of Republican girls mentioned the identical.
Extra girls now than in the summertime consider the outcomes of this presidential election may have massive penalties for abortion entry and reproductive well being.
In June, 54 % of ladies mentioned they assume this presidential election may have a serious influence on abortion entry and reproductive well being care. By September, 65 % of ladies mentioned they believed this.
Democratic girls who say abortion is crucial situation to them are now extra more likely to consider this election will actually change the state of abortion entry and reproductive well being care within the U.S.
Twenty-six % of all Democratic girls say abortion is crucial voting situation for them.
And 79 % of those girls now say this presidential election issues “in a major way” for abortion entry, up from 66 % in June.
Republican girls alternatively don’t consider this election will change a lot on the subject of abortion, in keeping with KFF.
The KFF survey was performed Sept. 12 to Oct. 1 on-line and by telephone amongst 649 girls who’re registered to vote within the U.S. and took half in its June survey, together with a supplemental pattern of 29 Black feminine registered voters to make sure sufficient pattern dimension and representatives of a key voting group. The margin of error for the survey is 5 proportion factors.
