Gallup poll: 47% pro-choice, 46% pro-life; 50% want restrictions
Gallup has just released it annual survey on the abortion question. This year 47% of Americans said they considered themselves pro-choice, and 46% pro-life:
In 1995, 56% of the public considered themselves pro-choice and only 33% pro-life. But the lines slowly drew closer until 2009, when for the first time a majority of Americans (51%) said they were pro-life. Since then, six of 10 Gallup polls have come down on the pro-life side. One poll showed a tie.
How various demographics shook out:
This poll also found 50% of Americans think abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances.” Added to the hardline pro-life pro-life position, that amounts to 71% who think abortion should be restricted or outlawed, numbers somewhat close to the recent Politico poll, which found 80% of Americans want abortion restricted.
On the importance of a political candidate’s position on abortion, Gallup wrote:
The abortion issue seemingly has been sidelined over the past several election cycles as a series of weighty issues – including the Iraq War, the economy, and healthcare reform – have dominated political debate. It is thus remarkable that the percentage of voters saying a candidate’s position on abortion is paramount to their vote has not only remained constant, but has also increased slightly.
Finally, the Gallup poll found a candidate’s pro-life position held more sway with Americans than his or her pro-abortion position.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Gallup is usually pretty good, but men being more pro-life than women and young people being the least pro-life age group both go against the grain of other recent surveys. So I’m not sure how much to rely on this one. Sometimes you get a weird sample; it happens.
Ha, the old ‘identify’ question. As we saw the other day 88% of people are pro-choice to some extent or other.
It is interesting, and relevant, that women are more pro-choice than men. And guess who still holds most of the power.
I could state that I am pro-life because I wish to defend the lives of women who find themselves with an unwanted pregnancy.
Guess who should give up holding most of the power?
Men.
Ding, ding, ding.
And proabort men are on the biggest power trips of all of them. Proabort men need to grow a backbone, give up their power and support children’s right to live.
Pro-choice men don’t exercise any power, particularly over women. Our aim is to prevent others from exercising power over women.
It is the anti-choice men who use power to subjugate and restrict women. Too many of them couldn’t give a tinker’s about the fetus, it’s all about controlling the women and keeping them ‘in their place’.
How much Amanda Marcotte have you been reading?
Only what I have been exposed to here Navi.
What I wrote is what I have observed of and heard from the culprits themselves.
The only humans worse than the outspoken proabort males are the proabort males who pretend to be prolife long enough to get what they want. Oh, and the abortionists and all others who commit human murder.
Spineless, controlling, using, abusing sad-excuses for humans those proabort boys are.
Those who wish to tell women what they can and cannot do are the spineless, controlling, using, abusing, sad-excuses for humans. That is factual, accurate and also quite obvious.