Record High 78% of Republicans are Pro-Life on Abortion

Lydia Saad handles much of Gallup’s coverage of the abortion issue and does so in a comprehensive way. This morning, she authored “Gender Gaps on Abortion Reach Historic Highs” which is well worth reading.

You would expect self-identified Democrats to support abortion—and the current survey bares that out. Likewise, you would anticipate Republicans to be more supportive of unborn children—also borne out by Gallup’s latest poll.

Currently, as of May 2025,

* 32% of women and 54% of men identify as pro-life. 61% of women and 41% of men consider themselves pro-choice. The difference—the gap—was 13-points in 2022  “and no more than 10-point differences in any reading before Dobbs,” according to Saad. “The gap has expanded since 2022 because pro-choice identity has dipped among men, from 48% to 41%, while it has held steady among women.”

In 2022, in the aftermath of the leak of the draft showing that Dobbs would overturn Roe, the “pro-choice”  was ahead of the pro-life by 16 points, but by this year the margin had been halved–down to 8 points

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*“Support for abortion rights expanded in 2022 among Democrats and, to a lesser extent, among independents, but it has since waned among Republicans.” National support “for abortion rights in Gallup’s latest poll, conducted May 1-18, is modestly higher” than it was before the 2022 Dobbs decision.

* Moral acceptability. “Similarly, there is now a record-high 17-point gap between women (57%) and men (40%) in their belief that abortion is morally acceptable and a record-high 15-point gap in women’s (56%) and men’s (41%) support for abortion being legal in all or most circumstances.”

We’ve written about this before but is very much worth repeating. Gallup asks whether, in the abstract, abortion is “morally wrong” or “morally acceptable.” If you ask whether having an abortion is morally wrong or morally acceptable, the number saying it is morally acceptable drops dramatically. Unfortunately, the question is not asked in this more probing way very often.

* “Looking at the more detailed results, 30% of Americans currently think abortion should be legal under any circumstances, 19% support it being legal under most circumstances, 35% say it should be legal in only a few circumstances, and 13% want it to be illegal in all circumstances.”  In other words, “Today, the two outlooks are about even, with 49% favoring legality in all or most circumstances and 48% preferring it be legal in only a few or no circumstances.”

Saad writes

• Republicans’ belief that abortion is morally acceptable showed little change immediately after Dobbs. This year, however, it has dipped six points from its 2024 level to 20% — toward the low end of the GOP range for this question.
• Similarly, the percentage of Republicans identifying as pro-choice has fallen to a record-low 16%, after showing little change in the first few years after Dobbs. A record-high 78% of Republicans now identify as pro-life.

Saad’s “Bottom Line”:

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization appears to have had an immediate impact on U.S. public opinion about abortion after a draft opinion of the decision was leaked in May 2022. Women have shifted more than men on the issue, but this masks the fact that Democratic men have joined Democratic and independent women in becoming strongly more supportive of abortion rights since Dobbs. Essentially, the groups that were already the most supportive of abortion have become more so, while Republican women and men have maintained their broad opposition to abortion rights or become slightly less supportive.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.

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