Gallup: Americans want stricter abortion laws; satisfaction with current policy plummets
Per Gallup, February 9:
In 2015, 34% of Americans say they are satisfied with current U.S. abortion policies. This is the lowest percentage since Gallup first asked the question in 2001.
Gallup determined Republicans were the most dissatisfied political group, and they want stricter rather than less strict laws:
One factor contributing to the drop in satisfaction with abortion policies is significantly lower satisfaction among Republicans since 2012. From January 2001 to January 2008, after the election of Republican George W. Bush… at least 39% of Republicans each year said they were satisfied with the nation’s abortion policies….
However, since 2012, with Democratic President Barack Obama in office, no more than 29% of Republicans have been satisfied with the nation’s abortion policies. And Republicans’ satisfaction is particularly low this year, at 21%, an 8% decline from a year ago.
[O]f those who are dissatisfied, twice as many prefer stricter rather than less strict laws: 24% want stricter laws, while 12% want current abortion laws to be less strict….
At the same time, no meaningful changes have occurred in Democrats’ and political independents’ views on these questions since Obama became president.
Interestingly, this poll was taken before the 20-week abortion ban debacle in the House. I expect dissatisfaction now is even higher.
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Also interesting is that despite all the feminist hang-wringing, Democrats basically want the status quo, and Independents are leaning slightly toward wanting stricter laws.
How does the Democrat/feminist 2012-14 “war on women” meme fit in here? All that can be said is it certainly didn’t help them.
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.
This is another indication of the “intensity gap.”
The “War on Women” schtick had its short-term success — It helped to preserve the slim margin of popular support for Obama’s reelection.
But it was a long-term failure for the abortion industry, because it got more people thinking and talking about what abortion really is and what abortion really does to women, children, families, our culture and our country.
Anything that gets people to think, talk, and see the truth about abortion is a winning strategy for building a Culture of Life.
Something to keep in mind when we talk about stricter/less strict laws is that most Americans probably have no idea what the current laws are anyways. For example, many people may believe that abortion is already mostly illegal after the first trimester. In fact, I doubt that even 10% of the population knows how broad the health exception for post-viability abortions created by Doe vs. Bolton is. I’m sure that the more people learn about the status quo, the more they will say they support stricter laws.
Most people, walking around with a common level of ignorance, believe that there are situations in which an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of the mother. So people support and expect a “health of the mother” exception to every reasonable restriction on abortion. And this exception is then abused by abortion providers to proceed with every late-term abortion request.
This was one of the most successful propaganda victories of the pro-abortion lobby.
The only war on women are the little baby women killed in their mother’s wombs. But generally women abort for selfish reasons and with everything provided to them on the market abortion is the birth control of choice for many..My ex impregnated a woman with one living child. She immediately informed him she would be choosing and abortion. This made abortion number 6 for her. It would also be her last as doctors couldn’t stop her uterine bleeding. The doctor informed her ” You’ve just had too many abortions so we have to perform a hysterectomy” How empowering to be at war with your own body. Her right to choose murder was taken away that day. It as for the best.
I guess the blip up could be a short-term boost from the war-on-women campaign. Public awareness campaigns, if they have any impact at all, often have a short effect. But overall I would agree that this survey says the long-term trend is that people are losing favor for abortion.
Overall, Americans are getting more traditional; the sexual revolution may be receding now. Data show this. While the portion of people using birth control remains steady across years, teen-mom abortions are declining and so are teen pregnancies. So, the drop in teen pregnancies is not due to increased use of birth control, or we would see birth control use rising. We know teen-mom births are not dropping due to abortions, since we know teen-mom abortions are declining.
The one explanation is that we are getting back to regular morals, versus those of the Marxists.
Another indicator: teen drug use is declining:
http://www.behavioral.net/article/teen-drug-use-declining-trend
So, why are we getting back to regular morals? Probably because we are figuring out that the sex and drugs were not such a great idea, after all.