--- title: Swing States Overwhelmingly Back Abortion Rights: Poll description: A clear majority of residents in the top swing states support access to abortion, according to a massive new poll. canonical: https://time.com/6974104/swing-states-overwhelmingly-back-abortion-rights-new-poll-finds/ author: Philip Elliott article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-02T18:41:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:50:28.477Z article:section: Politics og:title: Swing States Overwhelmingly Back Abortion Rights: Poll og:description: A clear majority of residents in the top swing states support access to abortion, according to a massive new poll. og:url: https://time.com/6974104/swing-states-overwhelmingly-back-abortion-rights-new-poll-finds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc539fd8376a6589/698a565e011682324c985bf4/GettyImages-2147817477.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-US-politics-Women-abortion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Swing States Overwhelmingly Back Abortion Rights: Poll twitter:description: A clear majority of residents in the top swing states support access to abortion, according to a massive new poll. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc539fd8376a6589/698a565e011682324c985bf4/GettyImages-2147817477.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Swing States Overwhelmingly Back Abortion Rights, New Poll Finds > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ## Video: Arizona Democrats Get Enough Votes to Repeal 19th Century Abortion Ban [Watch (HLS stream): Arizona Democrats Get Enough Votes to Repeal 19th Century Abortion Ban](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/doReaYDC.m3u8) (1:24)  _Published 2024-05-03. Democrats secured enough votes in the Arizona Senate on Wednesday to repeal a Civil War-era ban on abortions that the state’s highest court recently allowed to take effect._  by [Philip Elliott](https://time.com/author/philip-elliott/)  ## Philip Elliott Senior Correspondent May 2, 2024 6:41 PM UTC  Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 15, 2024, after a court ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion was enforceable. Pro-abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 15, 2024, after a court ruled a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion was enforceable. Frederic J. Brown—AFP via Getty Images  by [Philip Elliott](https://time.com/author/philip-elliott/)  ## Philip Elliott Senior Correspondent May 2, 2024 6:41 PM UTC A clear majority of residents in the top swing states support access to abortion, according to a massive new poll. The Public Religion Research Institute surveyed 22,000 people across the country on abortion In the seven battleground states that are expected to define the presidential race—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—a collective 64% of residents say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Even red states are seeing growing support toward abortion rights; 57% of residents there say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. In fact, pollsters found only five states where supporters of abortion rights are in the minority: North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Idaho, and Utah. To learn more about the poll's findings, [read today's D.C. Brief](https://time.com/6973349/abortion-poll-florida-ban/). ## Transcript Hey. But if they have for 160 years extreme politicians came up with every excuse a manageable imaginable to maintain this Draconian ban abandoned by 27 men before Arizona was even a state a time when America was at War over the right to own slaves a time before women could even vote. Today we are doing what 23 Governors and 55 legislators refused to do and I'm so proud to be the ones that got this job done. And now I'm proud to sign this bill and provide a moment never leave for Arizona and we still have work to do Arizona women are still governed by a band that leaves no exceptions for rape or incest nor does it account for complications during pregnancy? I can't stop thinking about my daughters and how they will have a future and as we continue to go into the future and protect and enshrine the constitutional right to abortion and reproductive freedom. That future Generations will not have to live under that the restrictions and the interference that we've had the experience. 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