{"id":26030,"date":"2013-01-23T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=26030"},"modified":"2013-01-23T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:02:07","slug":"nbc-news-wall-street-journal-bungles-roe-v-wade-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nbc-news-wall-street-journal-bungles-roe-v-wade-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News\/Wall Street Journal bungles Roe v. Wade poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: left;\">This week NBC News and <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> released a <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Sections\/A_Politics\/_Today_Stories_Teases\/Supreme-court-question.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">joint poll<\/a> on <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and abortion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Below is the question wording for Question 21:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-26031 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"question\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/question.gif\" width=\"731\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One key error is present in the characterization of the <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision as one that a &#8220;constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy.&#8221; The <em>Roe<\/em> decision, along with small later modifications by the Supreme Court, mandates that no state may restrict abortion before the point of viability. Now, viability is not a set point, as it is dependent on medical technology, which is constantly changing. Current viability is understood to be around 23 weeks, as that is the age at which the youngest babies have survived outside the womb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-17103\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"deception-truth-lies\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deception-truth-lies.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deception-truth-lies.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deception-truth-lies-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>By labeling <em>Roe<\/em> as a decision mandating legal abortion through &#8220;at least in the first three months of pregnancy,&#8221; the public is misled to believe that the <em>Roe<\/em> decision legalized abortion through the first 3 months instead of the first 23 weeks (about 5.5 months). Polls have shown that a sizeable number of Americans support legal abortion only in the first three months of pregnancy. Their position is contrary to <em>Roe<\/em>, as no state is allowed under <em>Roe<\/em> to restrict abortion to the first three months. These people are being\u00a0falsely\u00a0led to believe that their position and <em>Roe<\/em> are\u00a0compatible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An accurate question should have been phrased, &#8220;&#8230;constitutional right to an abortion, at least to the point of viability outside the womb, which is currently about 23 weeks into fetal development.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get any answer you want when you ask misleading questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17103,"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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NBC News\/Wall Street Journal bungles Roe v. 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