{"id":205266,"date":"2019-06-24T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205266"},"modified":"2019-06-24T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:16:32","slug":"poll-nearly-half-texas-abortion-illegal-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/poll-nearly-half-texas-abortion-illegal-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Nearly half of Texas voters support making abortion illegal after 6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest poll by the University of Texas\/Texas Tribune shows that almost half of all Texas voters, and over two-thirds of those who identify as Republican, would support an early abortion ban that resembles those recently passed in Mississippi, Ohio, and Georgia.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports<\/a> that about half (48%) of Texas voters “support making abortion illegal after six weeks of pregnancy,” as a half-dozen states have done with similar bans, often known as “heartbeat bills,” which outlaw it as soon as a baby’s heartbeat is detected; 42% said they oppose such a law.<\/p>\n

Notably, 46% of Texas women<\/strong> supported outlawing abortion after six weeks, while 45% did not. Meanwhile, the results also showed that 31% of voters in\u00a0Texas believed it should be allowed<\/a> \u201conly in case of rape, incest or when the woman\u2019s life is in danger,\u201d while another 13% said abortion should be legal in certain cases<\/a> \u201conly after the need for the abortion has been clearly established.\u201d 15% believe it should never<\/em> be allowed. However, 37% agreed with the statement, “a woman should always be able to obtain an abortion as a matter of personal choice.”<\/p>\n

This means that 59% of those polled believe that abortion should be illegal or heavily restricted.<\/p>\n

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READ:\u00a0Poll: Facts about preborn baby\u2019s heartbeat impact Americans\u2019 abortion opinions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While “the vast majority of Texans would allow abortion under some circumstances… most Republicans were either altogether opposed (21%) or would allow abortions only in the cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother\u2019s life (47%),” according to the poll. The results also revealed that over half of the respondents who identified themselves as \u201cpro-life\u201d would allow abortions for any of the exceptions of rape, incest, or danger to the mother\u2019s life. Of those who identified as Democrats, 65% said they would allow abortion as a matter of personal choice.<\/p>\n

Daron Shaw, who is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and also a co-director of the poll,\u00a0said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Most people are kind of in the middle. They don\u2019t think you should be able to get an abortion on a whim. But they support it for strong circumstantial reasons. When you add in a secondary dimension \u2014 at what point are we talking about? \u2014 then it becomes very interesting. Although this is an issue where there are religious and ideological underpinnings, they are complicated by circumstances and by what point you are in a pregnancy. Timing seems to matter, and it\u2019s where medicine is really complicated.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fact that even more than half of those who call themselves pro-life would allow abortion under three different circumstances reveals that some people do, indeed, find the issue of life more complicated than it is. However, if one understands that life begins at fertilization<\/a>, as science clearly proves, then it really remains as simple as that.<\/p>\n

Results of the methodology<\/a> and summary<\/a> of poll can be accessed here.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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