Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds will sign the heartbeat law tomorrow that state legislator approved earlier this week. And when she does, she will be signing a bill that has the support of Americans across the country.
Last year, a Trafalgar Group poll shows 57.6% of Americans believe all abortions should be banned or banned when an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected.
According to the survey (download the PDF here), 13.9% of those polled say abortions should be illegal except in very rare cases to save the mother’s life, another 24% of Americas think 99% of abortions should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life, and 19.7 percent of abortions support banning abortions when an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected at approximately 6 weeks.
With the majority of Americans taking a pro-life position to support banning abortions (which requires Roe v. Wade to be overturned) that leaves a minority of Americans supporting abortion. Just 42.4% of Americans support legalized abortion with 30.8 percent saying they only want abortion legal in the first and second trimester and only 11.6% of Americans saying they support abortions up to birth — the position of Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.
A May 2019 Hill-HarrisX survey found that 55 percent of voters support laws banning abortions after six weeks – when an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable.
They survey survey found that 55 percent of voters said they do not think heartbeat laws are too restrictive.
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“The people who say abortion should be legal in all cases or illegal in all cases is a minority,” researcher Daniel Cox with the American Enterprise Institute told Hill.TV. “The vast majority of Americans are somewhere in the middle that abortion should be legal under some circumstances and there’s some significant variation.”
The May 10-11 poll found that 21 percent of voters said six-week abortion bans are “too lenient,” 34 percent said they are “just right” and 45 percent said they are “too restrictive.”
Also, a poll of young voters found that a majority support a heartbeat law.
And when it comes to specific states passing heartbeat laws, polls show voters in those states supported them.
May 2023 polling conducted by Ragnar Research for SBA Pro-Life America and the Florida Family Policy Council shows likely Florida voters strongly support protecting human life in the womb once a heartbeat can be detected. Almost three-quarters of voters oppose allowing abortion on demand up until birth.
Some 62% of Floridians support legislation to protect unborn babies when a heartbeat is detected, with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. The poll found 61% of Independents and 58% of women surveyed support such legislation. And Hispanic voters were even more likely than others to support the legislation, at 76%.
A North carolina poll found, by a 14-point margin, voters preferred legislation to protect unborn children when a heartbeat can be detected
A Missouri poll found the majority of residents backing a heartbeat law. According to the Saint Louis University/YouGov poll, 56 percent of Missourians agree that the state should prohibit abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy, including 57 percent of women. Meanwhile, 33 percent said they disagree and 11 percent said they are not sure.
A Trafalar Group poll in South Carolina shows 61% of state residents want abortions banned — either when the unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected or starting from conception.
Ohio voters supported a heartbeat law in their state as did Nebraska voters in a poll there.
And a September 2021 Rasmussen poll showed Americans support the Texas abortion ban to save babies from abortion by a 46-43% margin.
