By most accounts, American views on abortion sit somewhere between the two parties. While “abortion supporters often cite polls showing that about seven in ten Americans say they don’t want Roe overturned,” Alexandra DeSanctis noted earlier this week, “public opinion on abortion is far more complex than they want to admit.” Some of this stems from a basic confusion about what Roe does: Incoherently, some polls that show that a significant majority of Americans oppose overturning Roe simultaneously show that Americans are more or less split on whether abortion should be legal.
It gets even more complicated when you drill down into the details of when abortion should be legal — and when it shouldn’t. DeSanctis writes:
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