No they didn't

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Majority of Americans favor restricting abortion at 20 weeks, according to new Post-ABC poll

says the Washington Post, as if to announce that we're all in support of the new-fangled laws (of course everyone wants their laws fangled, but the old fangling is the best) coming out of Texas and elsewhere, and so it is received by rightists like these:

Only 27% standing with Wendy. RT @postpolls: Post-ABC poll: Majority Americans favor restricting abortion at 20 weeks http://t.co/elZgCAtrKj
— Byron York (@ByronYork) July 25, 2013

But not so fast. It's true the Post poll found 56% to 27% favoring restrictions after 20 weeks, as opposed to the 24 weeks specified in Roe v. Wade (another 10% wanted it banned altogether), but then [jump]

More broadly, overall support for legal abortion remains stable, with 55 percent saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 41 percent say it should be illegal in most or all cases.

And by implication they supported Roe very strongly, or at least the idea of the Supreme Court making the rules:

By more than a 2 to 1 margin — 66 to 30 percent — Americans say they prefer that abortion laws be decided for all states on the basis of the U.S. Constitution, rather than a state-by-state approach. This applies to both hard-core abortion rights supporters and opponents.

Is there a bit of a contradiction there? Not necessarily. People may be aware that "all or most cases" of abortion take place in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy—99%, in fact—so that they wouldn't fall in Texas's taboo zone anyhow. And by the same token they may not be aware that the Supreme Court drew the line at 24 weeks.

But the most important is that they clearly favored unrestricted abortion in most of the first two trimesters, and were particularly against sneak restrictions of the kind Texas adopted:

54 percent say they oppose state laws that make it more difficult for abortion clinics to operate; compared to 45 percent who support such legislation.

So don't get excited, crazies, things are really not going your way. What the headline writer at the Post may have had in mind is another question altogether.