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Americans Increasing Support for Abortion

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Support for legal abortion in the United States is now at its highest level in two years.

An Associated Press GFK poll shows an increase in support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Seventy-six percent of Democrats think abortion should be legal in most or all cases. Forty percent of Republicans and 54 percent of Independents agree.

Currently, 58 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal in most or all cases. That's 7 percent more than at the beginning of the year.

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