Laws banning abortion after 18 weeks, in the case of fetal disability or once a heartbeat is detected, also spark majority opposition. Black Americans have become more liberal on abortion rights, but they remain less so than is the case among Democrats overall. Notice: JavaScript is not enabled. Please Enable JavaScript Safely. In Depth: Topics A to Z. Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances or illegal in all circumstances?
With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life? Don't know what terms mean vol. Next, I'm going to read you a list of issues. Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, for each one, please tell me whether you personally believe that in general it is morally acceptable or morally wrong. How about abortion? Morally acceptable Morally wrong Depends on situation vol. Not a moral issue vol.
Would you like to see the Supreme Court overturn its Roe v. Wade decision concerning abortion, or not? Do you favor or oppose each of the following restrictions on abortion? Next, we'd like to know how you feel about the state of the nation in each of the following areas. For each one, please say whether you are -- very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. If you don't have enough information about a particular subject to rate it, just say so. How about -- the nation's policies regarding the abortion issue?
Asked of those dissatisfied with nations's policies on abortion Would you like to see abortion laws in this country made more strict, less strict or remain as they are? Thinking about how the abortion issue might affect your vote for major offices, would you -- [ROTATED: only vote for a candidate who shares your views on abortion or consider a candidate's position on abortion as just one of many important factors or not see abortion as a major issue]? Would you favor or oppose a law that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy?
The people I spoke with had strong but nuanced views. There are two things we get the most wrong about abortion in the United States. Abortion is a common experience in the United States, much more so than most of us realize. There are just over 1 million abortions annually, as of Put another way: 1. The best statistics say that one in 10 women will have an abortion by age 20 — and one in four by age By age 45, one in three American women will have terminated a pregnancy.
Twenty-one percent of pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute. I find myself in a similar situation. But as a friend or family member? Abortion is common — and, in certain ways, there is surprising agreement in the United States about what the process of obtaining an abortion ought to be like.
There is a clear split between people who think abortion should be legal in most or some situations and those who disagree. We accept the divide. Our poll tried something different: it asked respondents to think about women who had decided to have an abortion and how that experience ought to be.
And there, we found agreement. Seventy-two percent want the experience to be comfortable. Seventy-three percent want it to be supportive, and 74 percent want it to be nonjudgmental. These numbers are higher than those who support the Roe v. Wade decision 68 percent and much higher than those who think abortion ought to be legal in most or some situations 46 percent.
Women are traveling further to obtain abortions as some clinics have closed in the face of new regulations. In Texas, for example, the number of clinics has fallen from 43 in August to eight in October Data for these charts come from the Texas Tribune. In most of my coverage, I find it rare to see leaders of the pro-life and pro-choice movements having a productive conversation. When put into debate, they often talk past each other. This makes sense: these are the people who exist at the more polarized ends of the issue.
But I could easily see the people I interviewed — people like David King and Elaine Bledsoe and Meghann August — having a productive discussion about how our country regulates abortion.
They might get behind similar abortion laws — ones that protected women from aggressive protesters, for example — in a way I could never see Washington lobbying groups collaborating. But they do live under those laws — and even though they come from different backgrounds and live in different states and hold different views, they have way more in common with one another than most of us realize.
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