Survey reveals majority Latino voter support for abortion rights
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More than 70% of Latino voters in the United States support that the right to abortion be protected by law, according to a poll by UnidosUS
More than 70% of Latino voters believe that the right to abortion should continue to be protected by law, and the issue of induced termination of pregnancy appears for the first time among the five issues that most concern this community after the The Supreme Court annulled the federal protection to abortion granted by Roe vs. Wade , revealed a survey released today by UnidosUS.
Latino voters “reject extremes and oppose disenfranchisement, as their views on abortion illustrate, and they want to see progress on issues facing the country,” said Clarissa Martinez De Castro, vice president of UnidosUS, formerly known as as the National Council of La Raza.
Juntos con @MiFamiliaVota, publicamos hoy los resultados de una importante encuesta nacional de votantes hispanos.
— UnidosUS (@WeAreUnidosUS) August 10, 2022
Los resultados muestran un cambio significativo en algunos de los principales temas de importancia para los votantes latinos: https://t.co/vyg9BcFZ0L
“Abortion policy is clearly more important than in the past for this group of voters who, whatever their personal beliefs, strongly reject disenfranchisement, and that includes both Catholic and non-Catholic Latinos,” she told turn Gary Segura, president of the firm BSP Research, which conducted the survey.
A Pew Center survey released in June found that 60% of Latinos interviewed believed that abortion should remain legal in the United States.
Segura added that “the Latino electorate, which is grumpy and fearful about the economy, in general sees its values ​​and positions more aligned with the Democrats than with the Republicans.”
The rise in importance that abortion now has for Latinos follows a Supreme Court ruling last June that overturned Roe v. Wade, according to which the State had no right to interfere with a woman's decision about the continuation or termination of abortion. of her pregnancy.
The most recent ruling left the legality of abortion subject to the decisions of individual state legislatures, and affects more minority and low-income women, who have fewer resources to obtain contraception and to move to states where abortion is legal if they decide to have one.
According to a 2019 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prepared with data from 30 states, the rate of induced abortions was 13 per 1,000 Latina women.
By comparison, the rate among white women was 6.6 per 1,000 and 23.8 per 1,000 among African-American women.
UnidosUs conducted its survey from July 20 to August 1 among 2,540 Latinos eligible to vote.
According to the Latino organization, inflation is the issue that most concerns Hispanic voters, followed by violence and shootings in schools, employment and health care.
Other areas of concern, the report noted, are the environment, affordable housing, government corruption, the solvency of Medicare and Social Security, the quality of schools, and racial discrimination.
The need for reform of the immigration system ranks 12th among the issues that most interest Latino voters, who strongly expressed the opinion that there should be a path to citizenship.