{"id":58858,"date":"2015-01-26T09:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=58858"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:59:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:59:33","slug":"new-poll-shows-most-americans-would-ban-abortion-after-the-first-trimester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-poll-shows-most-americans-would-ban-abortion-after-the-first-trimester\/","title":{"rendered":"New poll shows most Americans would ban abortion after the first trimester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>People on both sides of the abortion debate had much to talk about when Republicans introduced a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/naral-very-unhappy-as-republicans-propose-national-late-term-abortion-ban\/\">NARAL lobbied hard against it<\/a>, and though the bill easily passed the House before and is supported by a majority of Americans, <a href=\"\/news\/obama-promises-to-veto-20-week-abortion-ban\/\">Obama promised to veto it<\/a>. The bill was tabled due to <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-house-halts-vote-on-20-week-ban-over-rape-exception\/\">debate over the rape exception<\/a>, which is unfortunate for apparently both pro-lifers <em>and<\/em> pro-abortion advocates alike. A new poll shows that a whopping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/en\/news\/polls\/index.html\">84% of Americans want to ban abortion after the first trimester<\/a>, and that includes 7 out of 10 who consider themselves &#8220;pro-choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eighty-four percent of Americans want significant restrictions on abortion, and would limit it to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy. This includes almost 7 in 10 (69 percent) who identify themselves as \u201cpro-choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same percentage (84 percent) also says that laws can protect both the well-being of a woman and the life of the unborn.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, by more than 20 points (60 percent to 38 percent), Americans say abortion is morally wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Other key findings of the survey include:<br \/>\n\u2022 64 percent say the nation\u2019s abortion rate is higher than it should be. Only 7 percent thinks it is too low.<br \/>\n\u2022 78 percent support parental notification before a minor can obtain an abortion.<br \/>\n\u2022 68 percent oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, while only 28 percent support it.<br \/>\n\u2022 By nearly three to one, Americans see abortion as doing a woman more harm than good in the long run (59 percent to 22 percent).<br \/>\n\u2022 By 20 points (57 percent to 37 percent), Americans support proposed legislation that would permit medical professionals and organizations to refuse to provide abortions or refer patients for abortions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans say that they plan on voting on the 20-week abortion ban later in the session, and this polling should serve as yet another motivation\u00a0for them to do so. Americans do not support abortion; polling has repeatedly shown this to be true. And they <em>especially<\/em> do not like late-term abortion.<\/p>\n<p>There are only <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2014\/03\/12\/report-u-s-one-seven-countries-allows-late-term-abortion\/\">a small handful of countries that allow late-term abortion<\/a>, and permitting such a barbaric practice to continue in the United States despite scientific evidence showing that <a href=\"http:\/\/national.deseretnews.com\/article\/216\/small-survivors-how-the-disputed-science-of-fetal-pain-is-reshaping-abortion-law.html\">unborn babies can feel pain<\/a> in the womb, and repeated polling showing that a large majority of Americans \u2014 including a large majority of women \u2014 want it banned makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>The people who do want late-term abortion are the extremists, the ones<a href=\"\/news\/abortion-supporter-jessica-valenti-demands-free-abortions\/\"> calling for free abortions, on demand and without apology<\/a>. They are in the minority, yet their voices also tend to be the loudest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for politicians to stop listening to the vocal minority and pandering to the pro-abortion extremists, who are so very out of touch with what the rest of Americans want, and to start listening to what Americans are actually saying about abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People on both sides of the abortion debate had much to talk about when Republicans introduced a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. NARAL lobbied hard against it, and though the bill easily passed the House before and is supported by a majority of Americans, Obama promised to veto it. 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