May 2, 2009 9:20 AM
Abortion support declining in U.S.
Interesting: as the most pro-abortion president ever hammers home his pro-abortion agenda - even while deceitfully saying he is willing to listen to all sides - the American public is turning in the opposite direction:New Pew Poll Shows Support for Legal Abortion Drops to Lowest Level in 15 Yearsby Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 29, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll conducted by Pew Research finds the support for legal abortions has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 31-April 21 among 1,521 adults, finds President Barack Obama's abortion advocacy could be sparking a shift to the pro-life side of the abortion debate.
The Pew poll found 46 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in most cases (28%) or all cases (18%) and 44 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in most (28%) or all cases (16%).
That two point margin in favor of abortion is the lowest margin since 1995 as Pew, and other polling firms, have been asking the same polling question of Americans across the country every year.
The proportion saying that abortion should be legal in all or most cases has declined to 46% from 54% last August.
Currently, 44% say abortion should be illegal in most (28%) or all cases (16%), up slightly since last August (41%).
Breaking down the polling results by social groups and comparing them with Pew's results in August, men saw a 10 percent pro-life shift and women a 5 percent shift between polls.
Older voters 50 and up experienced a greater shift (10-11 percent) to the pro-life position making abortions illegal while voters under 50 saw a five percent pro-life shift.
Politically, there has been notable decline in the proportion of independents saying abortion should be legal in most or all cases; majorities of independents favored legal abortion in August and the two October surveys, but just 44% do so today.
In addition, the proportion of moderate and liberal Republicans saying abortion should be legal declined between August and late October (from 67% to 57%). In the current survey, just 43% of moderate and liberal Republicans say abortion should legal in most or all cases.
Democrats saw no change as 62 percent say abortions should generally be legal while 27 percent say they should generally be illegal.
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Comments
Only 84% to go!
I still stand by the comments I made here:
http://fjdalessio.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/americas-shame
Fredi D'Alessio:
http://fjdalessio.wordpress.com/who-is-the-editor/
Posted by: Fredi D'Alessio | May 2, 2009 10:33 AM
No child killing with tranquility!!
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Posted by: Leslie Hanks | May 2, 2009 10:37 AM
You do know Obama is Pro-Life right?
Posted by: Josh | January 25, 2011 9:37 AM
hehe
i mean, i'm assuming that was a joke?
Posted by: Barbara | January 25, 2011 6:37 PM
I find it ironic that Obama is such a staunch supporter of abortion. Had abortion been legal at the time his mother became pregnant with him, would he exist?
I most likely would not be here. Being born to an un-wed teen mother is considered a bad choice, or mistake. Good thing my mom made her mistake a year too early.
Posted by: April Clark | January 26, 2011 9:37 AM
