Late last month, a political action committee created by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) released an ad targeted at Alabama voters, claiming that women in their state will be arrested if they leave to get an abortion.
As Townhall covered, the television ad called “Fugitive” showed two women in a car one mile away from leaving the state of Alabama. As they approach the border, a police car pulls the girls over and tells the driver to “step out of the vehicle” and “take a pregnancy test.”
“Trump Republicans want to criminalize young Alabama women who travel for reproductive care,” the ad’s narrator says. “Stop them by taking action at righttotravel.org.”
Gavin Newsom wants you to believe if you get an abortion cops are going to arrest you. They really have nothing else for November pic.twitter.com/8f1211l8Xm
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) April 22, 2024
Newsom’s ad is clearly meant to instill fear among young women. A new CNBC/Generation Lab survey released this week found that almost two-thirds of respondents, 62 percent, would “probably not” or “definitely not” live in a state with bans on abortion. The “Youth & Money in the USA” survey asked 1,033 people between the ages of 18 and 34 about their views on this issue (via CNBC):
And 45% of those surveyed said that if they were to be offered a job in a state where abortion is illegal, they would either “definitely reject” or “probably reject” the offer. Another 35% said they would “probably accept” the job. And only 20% of respondents said they would definitely take the job.
“These numbers on abortion have gigantic implications for just about every large company in America,” said Cyrus Beschloss, the CEO of The Generation Lab. “Companies must know they’ll be freezing out or at least scaring a large part of the young talent they’re trying to hire when they’re based in one of these states.”
The survey was conducted between April 26 and May 2, and has a margin of error +/- 3.1%.
In 2022, weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a Generation Lab/Axios poll found that the majority of young men and women say that states’ individual laws on abortion will impact where they choose to live.
By the numbers, 58 percent of young men and women combined said a state’s abortion laws would influence their decision on where to live “somewhat” or “a lot.” Predictably, Democrats were twice as likely as Republicans to say this, at 67 percent to 36 percent, respectively. The 58 percent figure accounts for 62 percent of women and 53 percent of men.
