{"id":25073,"date":"2013-01-10T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=25073"},"modified":"2013-01-10T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:02:45","slug":"knights-of-columbus-poll-finds-majority-of-americans-favor-abortion-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/knights-of-columbus-poll-finds-majority-of-americans-favor-abortion-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights of Columbus Poll finds majority of Americans favor abortion restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/news\/polls\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">new poll<\/a> shows that a majority of Americans favor restrictions on abortion. The Marist Institute for Public Opinion poll\u00a0commissioned\u00a0by\u00a0Knights of Columbus found that 8 in 10 Americans favor stricter abortion controls. This year\u2019s poll found that 83% favor more restriction, up four points from last year.<\/p>\n<p>The polling broke down further to show that of the 83%:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10% want all abortion to be unavailable<\/li>\n<li>12% believe abortions to save a mother\u2019s life should be permitted<\/li>\n<li>34% only want to allow abortions to save a mother\u2019s life or in cases of rape or incest<\/li>\n<li>27% want to restrict abortion to the first three months of pregnancy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another part of the survey found that 58% Americans believe that abortion is \u201cmorally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Data from the poll was collected via\u00a0landline\u00a0and cell phone from December 4 to 6, 2012. 1,246 adults were surveyed and the poll has a\u00a0margin of error within +\/- 2.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On the web:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/resources\/communications\/marist_poll_abortion_122012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Full poll results [.PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Knights of Columbus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaining ground for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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