Republicans divided over Arizona near-total abortion ban, poll shows

Republicans are nearly evenly divided over the Arizona supreme court’s decision to uphold an 1864 law that would ban almost all abortions, new polling shows.

Forty-nine per cent of Republicans strongly or somewhat disapprove of the decision, while 46% of Republicans strongly or somewhat approve of it, according to polling of more than 1,000 likely voters released on Tuesday by the left-leaning thinktank Data for Progress. That split reflects the GOP’s identity crisis over post-Roe v Wade abortion politics, as Republican politicians have struggled to talk about an issue that was once their bread-and-butter but has become increasingly toxic for them.

Data for Progress found that voters diverged along party lines on whether they believed Donald Trump’s statements on the issue. Trump has said that the Arizona supreme court went too far while insisting that the decision will be “straightened out”. He has also continued to say that abortion remains an issue best decided by state governments, a position he took in a video issued just a day before the Arizona supreme court ruling.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/16/republicans-divided-arizona-abortion-ban