A recent Marist Poll found Americans are as much likely to be pro-life as pro-choice, a double digit increase from just last month according to an Axios report.
February poll: 47 percent pro-choice, 47 percent pro-life.
January poll: 55 percent pro-choice, 38 percent pro-life.
The poll found that most Americans, 80 percent, say abortion should be restricted to the first three months of a pregnancy.
New York and Virginia recently passed laws on abortion in recent weeks, concerning late-term abortion, which Marist Poll director Barbara Carvalho credits with changing Americans’ attitudes on abortion.
February: 34 percent of Dems under 45 identify as pro-life, 61 percent as pro-choice.
January: 20 percent identified as pro-life, 75 percent as pro-choice.
“The recent legal changes to late-term abortion and the debate which followed have not gone unnoticed by the general public. Current proposals that promote late-term abortion have reset the landscape and language on abortion in a pronounced – and very measurable – way. This has been a measure that has been so stable over time. To see that kind of change was surprising. And the increased discussion [of late-term abortion] in the public forum in the past month appears to have made the biggest difference in how people identify on the issue." … Marist Poll director Barbara Carvalho
Marist surveyed 1,008 adults from Feb. 12 to Feb. 17 by phone, with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
Read More Here: Newsmax
No comments:
Post a Comment