{"id":196693,"date":"2019-02-17T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=196693"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T04:13:56","slug":"survey-pro-choice-reject-pro-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/survey-pro-choice-reject-pro-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows even most pro-choice Americans reject radical pro-abortion laws"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) W<\/span>ith every step they take toward a more radically pro-abortion platform, Democratic politicians are stepping further away from the views of the average American. This has been true for decades \u2014 75 percent of people, for example, say they support limiting abortion to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy. The official platform of the Democratic party, meanwhile, endorses eliminating all restrictions on abortion and directly funding abortion procedures with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

But this gaping divide has become even more pronounced over the past several weeks, as Democrats have advanced legislation to allow abortion late in pregnancy, well past fetal viability<\/a>, up to the point of birth<\/a>, and perhaps even afterwards<\/a>. A new national survey from YouGov, in partnership with Americans United for Life (AUL), confirms that, by adopting such extreme policy preferences, Democrats risk alienating the vast majority of voters \u2014 including those who generally support abortion rights.<\/p>\n

The YouGov poll found that an overwhelming majority of Americans reject abortion late in pregnancy, including 79 percent who reject all abortion in the last three months of pregnancy, 80 percent who oppose abortion the day before a child would have been born, and 82 percent who reject denying medical care to viable infants.<\/p>\n

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Substantial majorities of pro-choice respondents share that aversion to these grotesque practices. Sixty-six percent of pro-choice Americans said they oppose third-trimester abortion, nearly 70 percent oppose abortion the day before a child would have been born, and 77 percent oppose removing medical care from a viable newborn.<\/p>\n

Younger voters tend to shy away from support of these practices as well. Sixty-nine percent of respondents between the ages of 18 and 34 said they oppose abortion in the last three months of pregnancy and the day before birth, and 81 percent oppose removing medical care from viable newborn infants.<\/p>\n

In other words, huge numbers of Americans have repudiated the policies that Democrats have been pushing since the end of last month. On the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade<\/em>, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act, which permits abortion up to 24 weeks for any reason and allows lenient exceptions for abortion up until birth.<\/p>\n