Less than a third of Alabamians indicated last year that they approved of the provisions of the abortion ban passed by the state Legislature earlier this week and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday, according to polling conducted on behalf of Planned Parenthood’s southeast affiliates.

The survey showed that as lawmakers and the governor signed off on the country’s most restrictive abortion law, its provisions were deeply unpopular among Alabamians overall – and even the state’s most conservative residents.

Anzalone Liszt Grove Research, a Montgomery-based Democratic polling firm whose clients have included Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, sent a memo Wednesday to “interested parties” pointing out the results of the 2018 survey following the passage of the abortion ban this week.

“Polling conducted by ALG Research for Planned Parent Southeast last year showed that banning abortion without exceptions for rape and incest is overwhelmingly a minority position among Alabama voters,” the firm said in its memo, which AL.com obtained Friday from Atlanta-based Planned Parenthood Southeast. “Further, even among conservative-leaning subgroups like Republicans, evangelicals, and those who attend church at least weekly, more voters back abortion access with, at least, exceptions for rape and incest than support a policy of the type passed through the Alabama legislature this week that bans abortion without such exceptions.”

Only 16 percent of those polled said they agreed that abortion should be outlawed except when the woman’s life is in danger while 15 percent said abortion should be illegal in all cases.

The bill that sailed through the Alabama Legislature and signed by Ivey bans abortion except in cases where the woman’s health is threatened and criminalizes the procedure for doctors who perform abortions outside of that circumstance.

A plurality of Alabamians polled – 29 percent – said abortion should only be legal in cases of rape, incest or the life of the woman is in danger. Two in 10 said abortion “should be legal in most cases but with some restrictions” and 16 percent responded that abortion should be legal in all cases.

The bill’s provisions were unpopular even among the strongest conservative subgroups – Republicans, Kay Ivey voters, evangelicals and those who attend church at least once a week. The provisions only had minority support among those subgroups – 41 percent among Republicans; 39 percent among Ivey voters; 40 percent among evangelicals; and 36 percent of those who attend church at least weekly.

Planned Parenthood Southeast, based in Atlanta, commissioned the poll last summer in the runup to Alabama’s Amendment 2 vote in November 2018. The amendment, which affirmed that Alabama is a pro-life state and would outlaw abortion in the event Roe v. Wade is overturned, passed with 60 percent support.

The telephone poll of 618 likely Alabama 2018 voters between April 27 and May 2, 2018. It had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.