Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Posted on 09/26/2005 10:44:33 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Washington DC, Sep. 26, 2005 (CNA) - A series of recent polls over the last two years indicates that a majority of United States residents identify themselves as pro-life, support restrictions on abortion and do not support abortion on demand. Half of U.S. residents said they believe abortion is morally wrong.
In an International Communications Research Poll, conducted in May 2005, 52 percent of respondents said they opposed abortion and 36 percent were in favor. Twelve percent said they didn’t know.
Woman Trend conducted a poll in April 2005 and found that 62 percent of respondents fell into the pro-life category: 17 percent said abortion should never be legal; 14 percent said abortion should be legal only when the life of the mother is in danger; 31 percent said abortion should be legal only when the mother’s life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest.
The same study found that only 35 percent of Americans were pro-choice. Of these, only 10 percent said abortion should be legal for any reason at any time during a woman’s pregnancy. The remaining believed restrictions—either after three months or six months—should be imposed.
In a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, conducted during the same period, 47 percent of people identified themselves as “more pro-life” and 44 percent identified themselves as “more pro-choice.”
A Wirthlin Worldwide post-election poll in November 2004 got even higher results, with 55 percent of respondents identifying themselves as pro-life and only 40 percent saying they were pro-choice.
A two-year study by Princeton Research Associates found that only 17 percent of Americans thought abortion should be generally available to those who want it. Fifty-one percent said it should only be allowed in cases of rape or incest, if the life of the woman is endangered, or not at all. Thirty percent of Americans believed there should be stricter limits on abortion.
And when Gallup asked 1,000 American adults in May 2004 whether abortion is morally acceptable or wrong regardless of whether it should be legal, 50 percent said it was morally wrong; 40 percent said it was morally acceptable. Eight percent said it depends on the situation.
Since Roe vs. Wade became law 32 years ago, there have been more than 43 million abortions in the U.S.
A pro-life good news FRump.
The dangerous leftist propaganda we are fed on a daily basis would have us believe the opposite of what this article says.
The atrange thing is that the Dems think that GWB is out of
touch, when in fact the Dems are out of touch. The only
thing that keeps the dems in line is the blood money errrr
I mean the campaign money donated by NARAL etc...
Send this to Biden
Send it to a fair number of freepers while you're at it.
BTTT
btt for later
bttttt for later
Please don't tell the dumacrats , it would surely ruin there day . Kill the unborn , spare the terrorist , faciast , islamic , radical bastards that want to kill us . Makes sense to them . Unblievable .
I'll bet that if you pressed and asjed more specific questions like, "Should a 12 year old girl be able to obtain an abortion without the consent of her parents?" or "Should it be legal or illegal to pull a baby out it's mother's womb feet first all except the head, stab it in the head with scissors and suck it;s brains out?" and other questions like that, you wuould find that there are very few "pro-choice" people.
I have never understood how/why this debate has raged for 30+ years. It seems to me the common sense thing to do is to put it on a national ballot. Let THE PEOPLE say that they want it (which in this case I strongly doubt). Is my view too simplistic?
Thanks for the ping!
later read/ping.
Prolife bump!
Woman Trend conducted a poll in April 2005 and found that 62 percent of respondents fell into the pro-life category: 17 percent said abortion should never be legal; 14 percent said abortion should be legal only when the life of the mother is in danger; 31 percent said abortion should be legal only when the mother’s life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest.
The same study found that only 35 percent of Americans were pro-choice. Of these, only 10 percent said abortion should be legal for any reason at any time during a woman’s pregnancy. The remaining believed restrictions—either after three months or six months—should be imposed. <<
Did you catch the lie?
It's in the second paragraph. 25% were pro choice with restrictions (three or six month restrictions). That means that Partial Birth Abortions are opposed by 87% of the people questioned (it is rarely needed medically). Somewhere between 62% and 87% want restrictions on after 1st trimester abortions.
That sounds closer to the 65% of the people oppose abortion with more women opposing it than men.
DK
Every woman I know who considers herself to be pro-choice is anti-abortion but doesn't want it to be a crime.
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