在最高法院推翻罗诉韦德案案几乎四年后皮尤研究中心民意调查自从该研究中心在近20年前开始评估对堕胎是否合法的意见以来，发现了最大的党派分歧。
总体而言，60%的美国人认为堕胎在所有或大多数情况下都应该是合法的。这比2024年的63%略有下降，但大致与2022年3月的观点持平，当时多布斯的裁决推翻了美国的堕胎权(61%)。
但共和党和民主党之间的差距从未像今天这样大。
皮尤民意调查在2007年进行1月，发现84%的民主党人和倾向于民主党的独立人士表示，堕胎在所有或大多数情况下都应该是合法的，这一数字自2022年以来一直处于这一点或更高。但在共和党人和倾向于共和党的独立人士中，36%的人表示堕胎在所有或大多数情况下都应该合法，低于2024年的41%。
今天民主党和共和党之间48个百分点的差距是2007年的两倍，当时两党的差距是24个百分点。
在对待堕胎的态度上，党派偏见是一个比性别更大的因素。大多数女性(64%)和男性(55%)认为堕胎在所有或大多数情况下应该是合法的。虽然这9个百分点的差距比2007年以来更大，但这主要反映了共和党男女之间的差距。
虽然大多数共和党和倾向于共和党的独立男性和女性表示，堕胎在所有或大多数情况下都应该是非法的，但持这种观点的共和党男性(67%)比女性(58%)多。
同样比例的民主党和倾向于民主党的男性(83%)和女性(85%)认为堕胎在所有或大多数情况下应该是合法的。
当被问及在他们生活的地区堕胎有多容易时，45%的人说会“很难”，这一比例从2019年的32%和2024年的39%有所增长。大约一半(51%)的人说在他们的地区堕胎很容易。
在生活在禁止堕胎的州的成年人中，73%的人说在他们生活的地区很难堕胎。在那些堕胎受到妊娠限制的州中，64%的人表示很难堕胎。
在堕胎合法的州，68%的人说在他们的地区堕胎很容易。
超过2比1的美国人认为药物流产应该合法(55%)而不是非法(26%)。认为它应该是非法的比例从2024年的20%上升了。另有18%的人表示他们对这个问题不确定，这一比例比2024年的25%有所下降。
民主党人和倾向于民主党的独立人士认为药物流产应该合法的可能性接近8倍(76%比10%)，而共和党人和倾向于共和党的独立人士认为药物流产应该非法的可能性高出8个百分点(43%比35%)。
微弱多数的美国人(52%)认为“是否堕胎的决定应该完全属于孕妇”这句话“非常”或“非常”好地描述了他们的观点。另有27%的人说他们的观点“不太好”或“一点也不好”
这皮尤研究中心民意调查于2026年1月20日至26日在8，512名美国成年人中进行，总体误差为+/- 1.4个百分点。
Largest gap between Democrats and Republicans on abortion legality in nearly 20 years
Almost four years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, aPew Research Center pollhas found the widest partisan gap in opinions about whether abortion should be legal since the research center first started measuring opinion on the issue nearly 20 years ago.
Overall, 60% of Americans said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. That's down slightly from 2024 when it was 63%, but roughly on par with views in March 2022, right before the Dobbs decision overturned the right to have an abortion in the U.S. (61%).
But the gap between Republicans and Democrats has never been larger than it is today.
The Pew poll, conducted inJanuary, found 84% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, a figure that has been at that point or higher since 2022. But among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 36% said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, down from 41% in 2024.
Today's 48-percentage point gap between Democrats and Republicans is twice the size it was in 2007 when partisans were separated by 24 points.
Partisanship is a much larger factor than gender in attitudes toward abortion. Majorities of women (64%) and men (55%) said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. While that 9-point gap is wider than it has been since 2007, it's mostly a reflection of a gap between Republican men and women.
While majorities of Republican and Republican-leaning independent men and women said abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, a larger share of Republican men (67%) than women (58%) said this.
Similar shares of Democratic and Democratic-leaning men (83%) and women (85%) said abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
When asked about how easy it would be to get an abortion in the area where they live, 45% said it would be "difficult," a share that has grown from 32% in 2019 and 39% in 2024. About half (51%) said it would be easy to get an abortion in their area.
Among adults who live in states where abortion is prohibited, 73% said it is difficult to get an abortion in the area where they live. Among those in states where abortion is restricted by gestational limits, 64% said it is difficult to get an abortion.
And in states where abortion is legal at or beyond the framework set by Roe, 68% said it is easy to get an abortion in their area.
By more than 2-to-1, Americans said that medication abortion should be legal (55%) rather than illegal (26%). The share saying it should be illegal has risen from 20% in 2024. Another 18% today said they are unsure on this question, a share that decreased from 25% in 2024.
Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are nearly eight times more likely to say that medication abortion should be legal (76% to 10%), while Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are 8 points more likely to say medication abortion should be illegal (43% to 35%).
A slim majority of Americans (52%) said the statement "the decision about whether to have an abortion should belong solely to the pregnant woman" describes their views "extremely" or "very" well. Another 27% said it described their views "not too well" or "not at all well."
ThisPew Research Center pollwas conducted Jan. 20-26, 2026, among 8,512 U.S. adults and has an overall margin of error of +/- 1.4 percentage points.
