Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers.

A new poll out this morning by The Public Religion Research Institute finds a widening generation gap over abortion, even as a polarizing Down syndrome abortion ban bill heads to the Pennsylvania Senate and the culture wars become a motivating issue in the 2018 midterms.

The PRRI poll finds that a third of voters aged 18-29 say their views on abortion have changed in the past year, amid legislative efforts both in Pennsylvania and nationwide to limit access to the procedure.

According to the poll, nearly three times as many 18 to 29s say they have become more supportive of abortion rights rather than more opposed (25 percent vs. 9 percent).

That compares to seniors, aged 65 and up, who are twice as likely to say they have become more opposed (12 percent) than more supportive (6 percent), the poll found.

Overall, that trend translates into a "significant generation gap," pollsters concluded, where a plurality of young voters (44 percent) say abortion runs counter to their personal beliefs, compared to 60 percent of Americans aged 65 and older who said the same thing.

More from the poll:

"Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of young people, compared to 51 percent of seniors, agree that abortion should be legal in most or all cases.

Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) young people, compared to 46 percent of seniors, agree that at least some health care professionals in their community should provide legal abortions.

Among all respondents, 38 percent say obtaining an abortion in their community is somewhat or very difficult, compared to 46 percent who say it is not too difficult or not at all difficult.

Nearly half (49 percent) of young Americans, compared to 35 percent of seniors, say abortions are somewhat or very difficult to obtain in their communities.

Seniors (26 percent) are far more likely than young people (seven percent) to say they are not sure how difficult it would be to get an abortion in their community."

"The relative stability of attitudes in the general public towards the legality and availability of abortion over the past few years has masked a growing polarization of opinion between younger and older Americans," PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones said in a statement. "As this younger generation continues to flex its political muscles--as we saw in the response to the Parkland shooting--they could also reshape the national conversation on women's health issues."

The poll of 2,020 adults aged 18 and older was conducted from March 14 to March 25 and it has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.

The poll's findings come the morning after the Pennsylvania House voted, 139-56, to ban abortions based solely on a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

The vote came despite protestations by the chamber's Democrats who said that it would interfere in the doctor/patient relationship and that similar laws in other states had been blocked on constitutional grounds.

The bill now goes to the state Senate, which had previously voted to approve, along party lines, a bill that would have restricted access to abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy and banned a common, second trimester procedure.

Gov. Tom Wolf opposes the Down syndrome bill, but has not explicitly said whether he would veto the legislation.

The rest of the day's news starts now.

Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh

has publicly called on Democrat

Joe Hoeffel

to drop out of the race for the new

4th Congressional District

.

The Morning Call runs down the results of yet another GOP guv forum, this time put on by a professional group representing building contractors.

GOP hopeful Guy Reschenthaler is outraising Rick Saccone in the fight for the Republican nod in the 14th Congressional District, The Post-Gazette reports.

Gov. Tom Wolf has signed legislation that would crack down on domestic abusers, The PG also reports.

The Legislature has approved a bill changing the way pain-killing medications are doled out in worker's comp cases, The Associated Press reports.

PhillyMag asks whether Starbucks should fire a manager who notoriously called the cops on two black patrons for no reason at all.

The NAACP tells WHYY-FM, meanwhile, that the incident is part of a larger, nationwide trend in discrimination.

Here's your #Harrisburg Instagram of the Day:

Pennsylvania has launched a concealed-carry website to clarify the rules for gun-owners, WITF-FM reports.

Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey lead all GOP comers in a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll, PoliticsPA reports.

Drought fears are sweeping the U.S. again, Stateline.org reports.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., remains hospitalized after surgery to treat an infection, Politico reports.

The super PAC aligned with U.S. House GOP leadership has reserved $4.8m in digital and TV ads for the mid-terms, Roll Call reports.

What Goes On.

It's a Tuesday on a session week, which means the dance card is very full indeed.

8 a.m., 8EA East Wing: Nuclear Energy Caucus meeting

9 a.m., Main Rotunda: AICUP on state grant funding

10:30 a.m., Media Center: Reps. Kristin Phillips-Hill, Pam Snyder and others on rural broadband internet

10:30 a.m., Main Rotunda: Muslim Capitol Day

11 a.m., Media Center: Rep. Tony DeLuca and others on good government bills

11:30 a.m., Main Rotunda: Nurse practitioners rally for expanded practice rights

1 p.m., Main Rotunda: Pa. Providers Capitol Day

2:30 p.m., Main Rotunda: Nurse anesthetists rally. You are getting very, very sleeeepyyyy ...

4 p.m., East Rotunda: Paper ballot voting machine demo

WolfWatch

By the time most of you read this, Gov. Tom Wolf will have done an 8:07 a.m. call-in to KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.

What Goes On (Nakedly Political Edition).

7:30 a.m.: Breakfast for Rep. Becky Corbin

8 a.m.: Breakfast for Rep. Bud Cook

8 a.m.: Breakfast for Rep. Daryl Metcalfe

8 a.m.: Breakfast for Rep. Tedd Nesbit

8 a.m.: Breakfast for Rep. Tom Quigley

8 a.m.: Breakfast for Sen. Scott Hutchinson

5:30 p.m.: Reception for Councilwoman Deb Gross 5:30 p.m.: Reception for GOP guv candidate Paul Mango

Ride the circuit, and give at the max, and you'll part with at least $5,850 today. There was no admission info available for the Mango event - so expect to pony up a bit more.

Heavy Rotation.

Here's one from

Big Wild

to get your Tuesday morning going.

And now you're up to date.