Majority of Americans oppose bans of medication abortion drugs, poll finds

A significant majority of Americans do not support laws that would prohibit access to drugs used in medication abortions, and confidence in the US supreme court is at a new low, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released on Monday.

A majority of Americans also do not believe federal judges should be able to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of a prescription drug, the poll found.

Sixty-four per cent of Americans oppose a law that would ban access to medication abortion – the use of prescribed pills to...