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These differences reflect a broader regional divide. New England residents are most likely to favor legalized abortion. Fully 75% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 20% say abortions should be illegal in all or most cases. Roughly two-thirds (65%) in the Pacific Coast region, and solid majorities in the Mid-Atlantic (61%) and Mountain West (59%) also favor legal abortion.
At the other end of the spectrum, residents of the South Central states – ranging from Texas and Oklahoma to Alabama to Kentucky – express the least support for abortion. A majority (52%) in these states say that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, while just 40% say it should be generally legal. There is also substantially more opposition to abortion in Midwestern states than in the country at large. In this region – ranging from Kansas and Missouri to Minnesota and North Dakota –as many say abortion should generally be illegal as say it should generally be legal (47%).
Attitudes Wide Regional Differences Abortion in  | Attitudes Regional about Differences Abortion  | Percent who say abortion should be  | Illegal in ally  | Legal in all  | most cases  | most cases  | New England  | 20  | 75  | CT, MA, ME, NH,  | RI,VT  | Pacific Coast  | 30  | 65  | AK, CA HI, OR, WA  | Mid- Atlantic  | DC, DE, MD, NY,  | 33  | 61  | NJ, PA  | Mountain West  | AZ, CO, ID, MT,  | 36  | 59  | NM, NV, UT, WY  | Great Lakes  | 41  | 50  | IL, IN, MI, OH, WI  | South Atlantic  | FL, GA NC, sc,  | 42  | 50  | VA WV  | Midwest  | IA, KS MN, MO,  | 47  | 47  | NE ND, SD  | South Central  | 52  | 40  | Al,ar, KY, LA  | MS, OK, TN, TX  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER July 17-21, 2013 Based on  | zoor gated States appendix data that from ban three abortion classifying July surveys at'22 conducted weeks or earlierare in 2012 and in  | red See appendix for classifying states into regions. 