Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, May 6th. I'm Nailibutu. Here's what

we're following today. COVID has changed how we design our homes, just like the 1918 pandemic

did. But first, today's one big thing. How do Americans really feel about abortion?

That's a question we've wanted to answer since the leak of the Supreme Court's draft

opinion on Roe v Wade. So what is the data actually tell us about the opinions of Americans

on Roe and on abortion rights? Public opinion has been very clear in that it's very complex.

That's Lydia Saad, director of U.S. Social Research for Gallup.

You have to look at probably 50 different questions to get a good synthesis of what Americans

really are saying on abortion. Most recently we found 58 percent opposed to overturning

the decision. And that's largely consistent with the range of support we've seen on that

all the way back to 1989. So broad support for Roe v Wade. But also very broad support

for restricting abortion in the second and third trimesters. Where the real friction comes

into play is in the first trimester.

With those top line findings in mind, let's dig in with Margaret Talib. Axios is managing

editor for politics who's worked with lots of polling on this issue. Hi, Margaret.

Good morning, Nana. Margaret, in the last few days, especially, I've been hearing a lot

about how hard it is to pull accurately around abortion. We just heard that from Gallup.

Let's start there. Why is this so hard?

We know that most Americans, majority of Americans, favor having abortion as a right as a choice

for women. And we see new polling out this week from Reuters and Ipsos that shows that about

two thirds of Americans, 63 percent of Americans, say that they would be likely to back a candidate

who wants to pass a law that would protect all Americans right to an abortion if that

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