{"id":318053,"date":"2024-09-03T08:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=318053"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:31:27","slug":"poll-reaffirms-most-support-restricting-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/poll-reaffirms-most-support-restricting-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll reaffirms even most ‘pro-choice’ Americans support restricting majority of abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(NRL News Today – NRLC<\/a>) A North Carolina poll taken the first week of August of 1,000 likely general election voters by the McLaughlin Group for North Carolina Right to Life showed that if the question is properly phrased a very strong majority would allow abortion only in a very small minority of cases. At the same time the poll showed overwhelming support for allowing abortion in those specific cases which constitute about 5% of abortions.<\/p>\n

These results reaffirmed similar results that have been found in both nationwide polling by National Right to Life and polling in Oklahoma by Oklahomans for Life.<\/p>\n

The North Carolina poll found that 89% supported allowing abortion to save the life of the mother, 86% supported abortion in cases where there was a medical emergency involving a serious risk of substantial, irreversible physical harm to the mother, and 83% supported allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest.<\/p>\n

These numbers show that it will be very difficult to pass life protective legislation without these exceptions. It is also most likely impossible to sustain laws without these exceptions when they face well financed pro-abortion citizen referendums with advertising that hammers on rape and women\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

The good news though is that a very strong majority will support allowing abortion only in these narrow cases.<\/p>\n

Respondents were asked if they would support or oppose allowing abortion only<\/strong> under these four circumstances:<\/p>\n

1) when it is necessary to save the life of the mother<\/p>\n

2) when there is a medical emergency posing a serious risk of substantial irreversible physical harm to the mother<\/p>\n

3) in cases of rape<\/p>\n

4) in cases of incest.<\/p>\n

71% said they would support such a proposal\u201351% strongly\u2013 while only 22% opposed it.<\/p>\n

Legislation that allows abortion in only these four circumstances eliminates about 95% of all abortions and makes it impossible for stand-alone abortion clinics to profitably operate. Such legislation is successfully in effect in West Virginia and Indiana and is clearly superior to legislation based on weeks.\u00a0 A 15-week abortion \u201cban\u201d stops only about 5% of abortions and a 12 week \u201cban\u201d stops only about 10%.<\/p>\n