References to abortion in TV political advertising surged after Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion last week.
Both pro-abortion and anti-abortion political advertising has surged since Politico published aCharles McQuillan/Getty ImagesThe proportion of pro-Democratic House ads that mentioned abortion rose from 6.2% before May 3—when Politico published the draft—to 22% on and after that date, while the share of pro-Republican House ads that referenced abortion rose from 13.5% to 14.
The effect was also dramatic in Democratic Senate contests, where the proportion of ads mentioning abortion rose more than tenfold from 0.6% to 6.1%, but the share of Republican Senate ads dropped slightly from 12.2% to 11.8%, according to the report. The percentage of Republican gubernatorial ads that mentioned abortion more than doubled from 4.4% to 10% after the draft ruling was leaked, and the percentage of Democratic gubernatorial ads increased moderately from 10.3% to 12.8%, the study found.
The Wesleyan Media Project analyzed data gathered by Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group pertaining to ads from January 6, 2021, to May 8, 2022.Views on abortion rights are split along partisan lines: 80% of Democrats think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared to 38% of Republicans, according to
published May 6 by Pew Research Center. Overall, 61% of adults think abortion should mostly be legal.The draft opinion published by Politico—which Chief Justice John Roberts has said is authentic but isn’t final—was tied to a case regarding a Mississippi abortion law that the high court is expected to rule on by July. The potential reversal of the 1973 Roe v.
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