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Support for legal abortion at highest level in 2 years (says AP/GfK push poll)
Associated Press ^ | Dec 22, 2015 1:12 PM EST | Nancy Benac and Emily Swanson

Posted on 12/22/2015 7:00:51 PM PST by Olog-hai

Support for legal abortion in the U.S. has edged up to its highest level in the past two years, with an Associated Press-GfK poll showing an apparent increase in support among Democrats and Republicans alike over the last year.

Nearly six in 10 Americans - 58 percent - now think abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 51 percent who said so at the beginning of the year, according to the AP-GfK survey. It was conducted after three people were killed last month in a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.

However, just over a third of Americans want laws on abortion to be stricter than they are now, the poll shows, while a quarter think they should be less strict. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; apgfkpoll; babykillers; liberalagenda

1 posted on 12/22/2015 7:00:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

It’s a ME, ME, ME, ME world.


2 posted on 12/22/2015 7:06:05 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The biggest liars in the liberal media have started referring to themselves as fact checkers. Sad.)
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To: Olog-hai

Liberal public school indoctrination.


3 posted on 12/22/2015 7:07:13 PM PST by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: Olog-hai

1. Who did the survey?
2. Who did they ask?


4 posted on 12/22/2015 7:11:57 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Olog-hai

100 percent of the 58 percent of American abortion boosters have already been born!


5 posted on 12/22/2015 7:21:18 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t buy this nonsense for one second. Somehow in two years 17% of people decide that suddenly it is OK to kill unborn children.

No Way!


6 posted on 12/22/2015 7:44:00 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Olog-hai

The usual story - lies, damned lies, and poll ‘statistics’.


7 posted on 12/22/2015 9:28:52 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

I’ll wager those same respondents are also for illegal immigration and also believe in globull warming.


8 posted on 12/22/2015 10:15:37 PM PST by onyx
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To: Olog-hai

Opinions haven’t changed in 50 years, so it makes you wonder about this poll.

how was the question phrased?

did they check the population choice was not biased?


9 posted on 12/22/2015 10:55:26 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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