Posted on 01/20/2016 12:49:06 PM PST by NRx
A new Marist Poll released Tuesday finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans support implementing tougher restrictions for abortions, including more than six out of 10 pro-choice individuals who favor banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Commissioned by the Catholic fraternal organization Knights of Columbus, Marist conducted its annual phone survey gauging the public's attitudes toward abortion and legislation seeking to restrict access to abortion in the United States in November 2015.
Although the media likes to portray the narrative that America is about split in half on abortion when it comes to pro-life versus pro-choice, the survey, which interviewed nearly 1,700 respondents nationwide, with an error margin of +/- 2.4 percentage points, suggests that there is a broad consensus in America that supports tougher abortions laws.
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Most people are uncomfortable with the Abortion issue. More so than with taxes or spending, abortion depends on the way the poll question is worded and the context in which it is worded.
It is true of candidate campaigns also. Aiken/Murdoch/Walsh are a good example fro 2012. It wasn’t so much the content. Most people couldn’t say which candidate said which blunder.
The problem is that highlighting the issue makes people uncomfortable.
In most cases, people will go the way the removes their stress and discomfort. It has little to do with where they stand on the issue.
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