Good morning. Welcome to Exias today. It's Wednesday, July 5th. I'm Naila Boudou. Today

on the show how climate change is affecting summer travel plans. Plus the wet bulb temperature

explained. But first, how Americans feel about abortion today. That's our one big thing.

It just passed the one year mark of the U.S. living in a post-row world. And a record

high 69% of Americans say abortion should be generally legal in the first three months

of pregnancy. That's according to Gallup. And it's up 2% from last year, right after the

draft of the Supreme Court document to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision was leaked. Since

then, the count of states with full abortion bans has climbed to 14. More than 2 dozen

states allow for legal abortion. Lydia Saad, Gallup's director of U.S. social research,

explained this for us back then. And she's here now with their latest research. Lydia,

we know Americans feelings on abortion tend to be complicated. But can we start with

what this record high support for abortion means exactly?

Sure. So you talked about our measure of public support for abortion in the first trimester.

We do break it down by trimester as one of our several measures. And essentially, both

measures since dobs was leaked last year have been much higher than anything we saw historically.

So it was 69% this year who said they think abortion should generally be legal in the first

trimester. It was 67% last year. But in our pre-dobs measure in 2018, it was 60%. And it had

never been higher than that up until that point. So we've now seen basically a nine point

increase in support for first trimester abortions post dobs. And not so much the dobs

decision, but the dobs leak. We saw a lot of our measures change immediately. When I say

immediately, we measure these things annually. So between 2021 and 2022, we saw some shifts that

were outside the norm of shifts that we normally see on abortion, which has been very stable for

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