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However, polls consistently show that 65% - 70% of Americans believe that abortion should be restricted to cases of rape, incest, and the life (not health) of the mother.

Then those polls must be wrong because they sure don't vote that way. Probably closer to the truth would be that while most Americans don't like abortion they also don't want it be illegal.

Dear JeffAtlanta,

I didn't say that most folks believe that they want to change abortion laws. Most folks honestly believe that the law does not provide for abortion on demand. Most folks think that there are already meaningful legal restrictions on abortion.

Most folks don't realize that most abortions aren't for rape, incest, life of the mother. When folks hear the statistic - 96% of abortions are NOT for rape, or incest, or the life of the mother, they're shocked.

But when the question is asked, would you restrict legal abortion to rape, incest, life of the mother, the biggies, you get pretty sizable majorities saying, "Yes."

If you phrase it as saying, "Would you ban 96% of abortions?" or if you say, "Would you generally ban abortion?" you get lots of nos.

That's because most folks don't realize that abortion is used primarily to take care of personal problems, not as a reaction to the extremes of rape, etc.

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