{"id":188515,"date":"2018-09-17T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188515"},"modified":"2018-09-18T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:59:13","slug":"new-poll-majority-against-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-poll-majority-against-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite skewed polls on Roe, new poll proves majority still against abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At National Review<\/a>, Dr. Michael New notes the number of polls that have analyzed Americans’ views on whether Roe v. Wade<\/em> should remain the law of the land. The problem with those polls is that most, if not all, either didn’t correctly explain what Roe<\/em> actually did, or explained it incorrectly. (One company was even forced to walk back its poll<\/a> for telling respondents that overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em> would make abortion<\/a> illegal<\/em> — a complete untruth — rather than returning the decision to individual states to set their own laws on the matter, just as they did prior to Roe<\/em>.) The best way to tell how Americans feel about abortion is to ask them not about Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but about abortion itself, says New. He writes:<\/p>\n

As I have pointed out previously<\/a>, public support for Roe v. Wade is a very poor metric for measuring support for legal abortion. Many Americans do not know that Roe\u00a0made it remarkably difficult for states to place limits on late-term abortions, and many are unaware that reversing Roe\u00a0would return abortion policy to the states.<\/em><\/p>\n

But a poll from Hill.TV and\u00a0HarrisX, released last week, asked 1000 registered voters “about circumstances in which abortion should be legal.” And as you might imagine, the results were very different than what Roe v. Wade<\/em> approval polls have purported to show.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

READ: CBS poll: 72% of young women favor more abortion restrictions<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

New says that 55 percent reportedly want abortion either completely illegal or legal only “in limited cases such as rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.” 27 percent approved of keeping abortion legal in the first and second trimesters but not in the third, and only 18 percent felt it should be legal at any time pregnancy. In addition, a majority “of every age demographic felt that abortion should be either illegal or legal only in limited cases such as rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.” New says this has shifted since the 1970s and ’80s, when there were “large generation gaps in beliefs about life issues.”<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting, however, that abortion is actually never necessary to save the life of the mother. Here’s a short video that explains why:<\/p>\n