Polls: 60% of Women Want a 20 Week Abortion Ban

Wendy Davis's head may just pop.

by Rod D. Martin
September 20, 2013

In what could well be enough to make Wendy Davis's head pop, a new Quinnipiac poll finds that 60 percent of women support the sort of abortion ban after 20 weeks (or five months) of pregnancy just enacted in Texas. Contemporaneous polls from ABC News-Washington Post and The National Journal find similar results.

This is an earthquake. Up to now, the conventional wisdom has been that abortion is a winning issue for Democrats, and a key to keeping women's support.

No longer. And it's not just women. As the National Journal put it, "Overall, the survey suggests that the 20-week abortion measure fractures some of the modern Democratic coalition. Among all age groups, it was young Americans -- who have regularly sided with Democratic priorities in the age of Obama -- who most strongly supported the measure."

Surprisingly to some, it is actually men who disagree, narrowly supporting a 20 week ban but by 10 percent less than women.  As one wag put it on Faceboo…