Growing majority of Americans want Congress to restore Roe v. Wade protections Boston 25 News [Video]

A full 54% of Americans (and 56% of registered voters) now want Congress to pass “a law that keeps abortion as legal and accessible as it was nationwide under Roe v. Wade,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

That is the highest level of public support for making Roe the “law of the land” since Yahoo News and YouGov started asking about the issue in spring 2022. In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, dismantling 50 years of nationwide protection for abortion and paving the way for individual states to curtail or ban the procedure.

In contrast, just 30% of Americans (and 33% of registered voters) would oppose federal legislation designed to restore the half-century status quo under Roe, which protected abortion rights until 22 or 23 weeks of pregnancy — the point of “viability,” at which a fetus can survive outside the womb.

The new Yahoo News/YouGov survey of 1,746 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April …