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January 16, 2013

Wash. Post: Forty years after Roe v. Wade, most under 30 don’t know case was about abortion

by Michelle Boorstein
The Washington Post

Next week is 40 years since the landmark abortion-rights decision Roe v. Wade and a new poll shows the majority of people under 30 can’t name what the case was about.

The new research coming out Wednesday from The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows 62 percent of Americans overall correctly identifying that the case dealt with abortion. Another 17 percent guess incorrectly and 20 percent offer no answer for what the case was about. Awareness drops to 44 percent among those ages 18 to 29, while strong majorities of older generations know it dealt with abortion.

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