--- title: How Dating Changed After End of Roe V. Wade: Study description: Politics and social issues have impacted how singles across the U.S. are approaching dating in 2022, especially when it comes to abortion. canonical: https://time.com/6234430/dating-after-roe-v-wade/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-11-16T22:08:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:04.716Z og:title: How the Fall of Roe v. Wade Has Changed Dating in the U.S. og:description: Two out of three single women say they won't date someone with opposing views on abortion og:url: https://time.com/6234430/dating-after-roe-v-wade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7d0d674b79c5647/698a3801457a521ef1d67151/abortion-roe-supreme-court-dating.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: The U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. 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Worth Your Time is TIME's culture newsletter, published Tuesdays and Saturdays to 40,000 subscribers as of August 2026. #### Who writes TIME's culture recommendations? Culture editor Eliza Berman writes Worth Your Time, drawing on TIME's critics and culture desk. #### Is Worth Your Time free? Yes. It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: Biden Vows to Push to Restore Abortion Rights Nationally if Democrats Expand Hold on Congress [Watch (HLS stream): Biden Vows to Push to Restore Abortion Rights Nationally if Democrats Expand Hold on Congress](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kSqwtnxP.m3u8) (3:35)  _Published 2022-10-18. President Biden promised on Tuesday that if Democrats expanded their majorities in Congress, he would work to codify abortion rights protections eliminated when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 16, 2022 10:08 PM UTC  A couple embraces during a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health ruling on June 24, 2022. A couple embraces during a protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health ruling on June 24, 2022. Brandon Bell—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 16, 2022 10:08 PM UTC For Christina Monroe, [dating apps](https://time.com/5356756/dating-apps-mental-health/) are a useful way to handle the politics conversation early in a potential relationship. The 29-year-old media strategist shares on her profiles that her political views are “leftist” and uses prompts to encourage potential matches to share their own leanings. For Monroe, [being politically aligned with romantic partners](https://time.com/5896607/dating-political-ideology/) has become a bigger issue since she relocated last year from New York City to Hollywood, Fla. “I consider myself to be a very progressive person, but now I’m in Florida, where it’s kind of the opposite—everyone’s either very moderate or conservative, or completely apolitical,” she says. “I have no tolerance for somebody who’s apolitical. If you don’t care about what’s going on with women, whether that’s Me Too or _Roe v. Wade_, then I just don’t think there’s going to be any sort of intellectual connection there.” Monroe isn’t alone. Politics and social issues have had a major impact on how singles across the U.S. are approaching dating in 2022, with [the landmark ](https://time.com/6189476/abortion-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade/)_Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health_ decision this June having an especially significant effect. According to [the 2022 Match Singles in America report](https://www.singlesinamerica.com/), released this week, two out of three single women say they will not date a partner who has opposing views on abortion, and 13% of active daters in the U.S.—about 9.8 million people—have said that the decision to overturn _Roe v. Wade_ has made them more hesitant to date. Even more people, 20% of respondents, said that the Supreme Court decision will make them more hesitant to have sex. Singles surveyed reported that the top three ways that _Roe_’s reversal has changed their dating lives have been more condom use, more hesitation around sex, and more fear of pregnancy. **Read more:** [_Would You Date Someone With Different Political Beliefs? Here’s What a Survey of 5,000 Single People Revealed_](https://time.com/5896607/dating-political-ideology/) For the study, Match’s 12th [annual report](https://time.com/6115383/match-singles-in-america-study-2021/), researchers surveyed 5,000 single people between the ages of 18 and 98 across the U.S., finding that societal issues are top of mind this year for singles looking for love. When it came to questions about politics more broadly, the report found that a lack of political engagement is a red flag for many daters: 31% of respondents said that having no opinion on key issues is a reason to call a relationship quits—nearly double the percentage who said the same five years ago. But singles also emphasized [the importance of open-mindedness](https://time.com/6224300/how-to-change-someones-mind/): 58% considered it a deal breaker if a partner wasn’t open-minded on key issues, and 46% said they would date someone with very different political views. Only one in four said they want a partner who thinks exactly like they do. Anthropologist Helen Fisher, Match’s Chief Scientific Advisor, who helped co-lead the study, was struck by the tension within the results between the relative openness of singles when it came to general politics and their inflexibility when it came to the issue of abortion. “That’s because politics change, but the implications of _Roe v. Wade_ will never change,” Fisher says. “Political figures come and go, but it is part of our DNA to want to raise our families when we want, the way we want.” --- ### More from TIME --- For all the impact that singles reported the _Dobbs_ decision has had on their dating lives, not all respondents felt positively about having the conversation: 25% of women said they would like to speak less with their partners about abortion. **Read more:** [_The Fight Over Abortion Has Only Just Begun_](https://time.com/6190995/abortion-future-after-roe/) Monroe has found it sobering to be living in Florida during the rollback of _Roe v. Wade_. While abortions are still legal in the state, a ban on the procedure at 15 weeks has recently been reinstated. And she says that the decision has also made her far less willing to entertain the idea of dating someone who hasn’t been vocal about supporting access to abortion. “I’m in a state now where it’s not as easily accessible for me to get an abortion or seek help, and that definitely weighs heavily on how I approach sex and dating,” she says. “If a man I was speaking with didn’t think my rights should be protected, I would absolutely never see them again.” For some singles, concerns around abortion access have led to them reconsider their means of contraception. Zevi Ryan, a 30-year-old DJ and producer living in New Orleans, has long considered getting a vasectomy at some point because he doesn’t want children. Since the _Dobbs_ decision, Ryan has begun considering it with more urgency—something on the minds of [many men.](https://time.com/6178287/vasectomy-sterilization-roe-v-wade/) “A lot of female-bodied people have to either alter their hormones or go through a painful procedure just to make sure they don’t have unwanted children,” he says. “The procedure we go through is very routine, not very painful, and rarely has any side effects, so it just felt right.” **Read more:** [_Vasectomies Are Going Viral After the_ Roe v. Wade _Leak, But They Aren’t a Solution to Abortion Bans_](https://time.com/6178287/vasectomy-sterilization-roe-v-wade/) [Maria Avgitidis](https://www.instagram.com/matchmakermaria/), the CEO of [Agape Match](https://agapematch.com/) in New York City and the host of the podcast _Ask a Matchmaker_, sees the impact of the _Dobbs_ decision on dating as part of a larger trend of social consciousness that she saw emerge in 2015 after Donald Trump announced he was running for President. She says that the singles she works with, particularly women, are now asking to be matched with people who share their views on politics and abortion. “That political consciousness is certainly at the highest I’ve personally seen as a professional matchmaker in 14 years,” she says. “People are articulating what they’re looking for.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6234430/dating-after-roe-v-wade/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6234430/dating-after-roe-v-wade/"},"headline":"How the Fall of Roe v. 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