Poll: 71% of Americans Want Limits on Abortion, Rejecting Central Tenet of Roe v. Wade

Many Americans reject a central tenet of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision on abortion and want to return the power to limit abortion to the states, a poll released Thursday found. 

Some 71% of Americans support legal limits on abortion, according to a new poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and conducted by the Marist Poll. The Knights of Columbus, a global Catholic fraternal service order, has commissioned the poll examining American attitudes on abortion annually for more than a decade. 

Abortion advocates repeatedly claim that most Americans support Roe v. Wade,...