Title: Abortion in the U.S.: Five key facts
Headings: Abortion in the U.S.: Five key facts
Abortion in the U.S.: Five key facts
Most Americans support abortion rights
Legal abortion is safe
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Content: The issue is highly partisan, the survey found. About half — 53 percent — of people who said they were Republican would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned, while 81 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of independents want it to stand. A 2013 NBCNews/Wall Street Journal poll found that 54 percent of Americans believed abortion should be legal all or most of the time and 70 percent supported Roe v. Wade. In 2013, 89 percent of abortions occured in the first 12 weeks. Guttmacher Institute
Legal abortion is safe
Opponents of legal abortion use a variety of arguments to discourage women from having them or to make it more difficult to provide them. Texas has some of the strongest laws, requiring clinics to meet stringent requirements that legislators say would protect the health of women seeking abortions. Kennedy was the swing vote in a 2016 Supreme Court decision striking down a Texas law that would have required abortion clinics to meet the same standard as ambulatory surgical centers. Medical experts overwhelmingly said such regulations were unnecessary. Earlier this year, the National Academy of Medicine reported that abortion care is safe in the U.S. It found that abortions can be safely provided in clinics and doctor’s offices. Fewer than 1 percent of first-trimester abortions lead to complications, one review found.