Posted on 01/03/2017 2:01:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
More than 40 years after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, 69% of Americans say the historic ruling, which established a woman’s constitutional right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, should not be completely overturned. Nearly three-in-ten (28%), by contrast, would like to see it overturned.
Public opinion about the 1973 case has held relatively steady in recent decades, though the share saying the decision should not be overturned is up slightly from four years ago. In January 2013, 63% said this, which was similar to views measured in surveys conducted over the prior two decades.
Democrats have long been more likely than Republicans to say Roe v. Wade should not be overturned, but the partisan gap has grown wider over time. Today, 84% of Democrats and those who lean Democratic say the Supreme Court should not completely overturn the ruling, up 9 percentage points from 2013 and 18 points from 1992. A narrow 53% majority of Republicans now say the decision should not be completely overturned, little changed in recent years.
Support for upholding the Roe v. Wade decision is widely shared among liberal Democrats (87% of whom say it should not be completely overturned) and conservative and moderate Democrats (82%).
While a 57% majority of conservative Republicans and leaners think the Supreme Court should overturn the decision, just 27% of moderate and liberal Republicans say the same. In fact, 71% of moderate and liberal Republicans think the court should not completely overturn Roe v. Wade.
Views on the case also vary significantly by education and religious affiliation.
Majorities across all levels of education say the court should not overturn Roe v. Wade. Still, higher levels of education are associated with less support for overturning the decision: Nearly nine-in-ten of those with postgraduate degrees (88%) say the court should not overturn the decision, compared with about seven-in-ten of those with a college degree (74%) or some college experience (70%) and 62% of those with a high school diploma or less education.
Among all Protestants, nearly two-thirds say the Supreme Court should not overturn the decision (63%), while 35% think it should be overturned. But white evangelical Protestants are more divided than other Protestants: 49% think the case should not be overturned, compared with 47% who say it should.
By contrast, an overwhelming majority of those who are religiously unaffiliated (89%) think the court should not overturn Roe v. Wade, while just 9% think the case should be completely overturned.
There are no significant differences in opinion on Roe v. Wade by gender: A majority of women and men both say the court should not completely overturn the decision. Younger adults (73%) are slightly more likely than older adults (64%) to say the decision should not be overturned, though majorities of both age groups say this.
Support for maintaining Roe v. Wade is somewhat higher than broader measures of public support for legal abortion, but the overall patterns of opinion are similar. In October, 59% of the public said abortion should be legal in all or most cases, compared with 37% who said abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
While a steady majority has said abortion should be legal in recent years, support in October was as high as it had been in two decades. Still, as with views of Roe v. Wade, the partisan gap in support for legal abortion has grown wider in recent years. While 79% of Democrats say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, just 34% of Republicans say the same.
I agree. I don’t believe anything coming out of Gallup, Pew or any of the others. Their ‘polls’ are more to try to move things one way or another than they are to take an honest assessment of American opinion.
God doesn’t vote He rules.
Exactly. You can make a poll come out any way you want, depending on how the questions are asked, and of whom they are asked. It’s a crap sandwich, designed to AFFECT real political opinion, not to gauge it.
Fact is, if Roe V Wade isn't overturned, or abortion banned, and fast, the Almighty will pour out a bowl of wrath on this nation (and the world) the likes of which have never been seen!
We've received a second chance to right this horrible wrong through the election of DJT. We had better not blow it. Time is short...
What do you expect with a satanic “education” indoctrination system along with pedophile satanists who control “programming” in HollyWOOD......which is embedding irrational and evil (satanic) worldview into our children.
There is no such “Natural” Right to kill your own genetic offspring in a so-called “Justice” (virtue) system when Justice is the Queen of Virtue and the only rational “justice” system is based on Christian Ethics only-—not satanism or paganism or worldview where Vice is Virtue.
So. with the destruction of the Minds of our children, deliberately by a system of brainwashing into satanism-—we have irrational “adults” who “think” that vice is virtue. Abortion and Sodomy are antithetical to a Virtue system based on Right Reason and Laws of Nature (and nature’s God), but the evil Marxists have been erasing history, theology, philosophy in our children to make them into non-thinking ideologues who only “think” the way they are programmed-—inside the State Box.
Abortion and Sodomy have to be removed as “protected” entities in our so-called “justice’ system. There is no natural right (all come from God and predate governments) to kill babies in the womb-—nor is there a natural right to sodomize other human beings-—both are evil, vile, dehumanizing, irrational behaviors of nihilism (satanism/a religion).
All ideas promote a “faith” and the only “faith” our Justice System is based on is the rational one of Christianity—the one which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science and the US Constitution, Magna Carta etc. All other religions/faiths, ethic systems are irrational and satanic.
Pass a Life At Conception bill on the Federal level and there would be no need to “overturn” Roe v. Wade. It would simply become an outdated SCOTUS decision that no longer had any relevance.
Depends on how you ask the question.
Abortion was a proper subject of state police power before Roe. It could be that again, without any conclusion about the moral defensibility of abortion. The states are separate communities in a federation. A revision to Roe could get us out from under federal overreach, so you could take the fight to your state legislators. Abortion should be handled at the state level.
This poll means little. Most respondents, I’d guess, think repealing Roe vs Wade would ban all abortions and jail a significant number of their female relatives.
If you ask the question seven different ways, you’d get seven different answers.
Obviously. That’s what pollsters are paid to do: calibrate questions for calibrated results.
Spot on it’s all in who you call in any poll.
Whether true or not, it doesn't matter. Roe vs. Wade is purely unconstitutional. We The People never delegated authority over that aspect of our lives to the federal government.
Roe vs. Wade does not need to be overturned or repealed. It needs to be vacated as being outside the specified and enumerated powers of any branch of the federal government.
If we learned nothing else from the last election - polls are worthless.
Especially poll that want to influence not inform.
And all the babies want it overturned.
And what were the percentages to legalize pervert marriage?
This is only propaganda for abortion. If the poll was accurate, the democrats would allow a referendum vote to decide the issue once and for all, just as Ann Coulter has said. I, my family, and all my friends are against abortion.
After the election polling debacle, no poll is to be trusted.
Roe was terrible law put into the courts on a fictional lie.
It is always how the questions are asked that these liars use. For example...
“Do you support a powerful federal government dictating what states can and can’t do even though states’ rights are guaranteed by the 9th and 10th amendments?”
Well of course not...
“Do you support taking away women’s healthcare?”
Well of course not...
This means that those people want to continue the practice of genocide in the form of killing unborn babies. Such killing results in disproportionate impact on unborn black babies.
I doubt the polling question was phrased in such a way as this. But it would be interesting to see how/if the results would change depending on how the question is worded.
So what. If a million people think doing the right thing is wrong and I stand alone- I will do what is right by God.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.