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June 25, 2019:
Gallup Poll:
Majority in U.S. Still Want Abortion Legal, With Limits
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May 31 - June 4, 2019:
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll:
Strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights
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May 31, 2019:
USA Today/IPSOS Abortion Poll
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May 15, 2019:
Gallup Poll:
Alabama Bill at Odds With Public Consensus on Abortion
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February 25, 2019:
Marist Poll:
Americans Make Dramatic and Sudden Move Toward Pro-Life
Label.
Democrats and young people lead the way as strong majorities
also reject late-term abortion |
January 15, 2019:
Marist Poll: 3 in 4 Americans Support Substantial
Abortion Restrictions |
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November 2014:
Quinnipiac poll
found that 60 percent of adults -- including 59
percent of women -- support legislation preventing
"virtually all abortions nationwide after 20 weeks of
pregnancy." (pdf) |
May 22, 2014:
Gallup Poll. U.S. Still Split on
Abortion: 47% Pro-Choice, 46% Pro-Life |
May 2014:
Politico Poll:
Politico interviews likely voters in
competitive U.S. House and Senate Races from May 2 - 13,
2014 |
March 6, 2014:
CNN Poll. A poll of "adults," not
registered voters or even likely voters. It finds -- 20% say
abortion should always be illegal; 38% say abortion should
be legal in a few circumstances; 13% say abortion should be
legal in most circumstances; 27% say abortion should be
legal in all circumstances. That's a 58% to 40%
majority who say that abortion should be legal in no
circumstances or only a few circumstances. The poll
also showed that by a 56%-39% margin, Americans oppose
public funding of abortion.
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January 2014:
Marist
Poll. Abortion in America. Conducted by the
Knights of Columbus. |
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June-July 2013 polls on protecting
babies at 20 weeks gestation |
July 17-21, 2013:
Wall Street Journal/NBC News. 44% say abortion should be banned at
20 weeks (38% strongly feel this way). |
July 18-21, 2013:
Washington Post/ABC News. 56% say abortion should be restricted up
to 20 weeks as opposed to 24 weeks. |
June 2013:
Huffington Post
poll found that 59 percent of Americans favored
federal laws preventing abortions after 20 weeks. (pdf) |
January 31, 2013:
A poll of
likely voters in New York found that proposals to liberalize the state’s
abortion laws are “extremely unpopular.” Almost 79% said there
is already sufficient access to abortion in New York, 80% opposed allowing
unlimited abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, and 75% are against
allowing non-doctors to perform abortions. The poll also found that 80%
favor a 24-hour waiting period, 76% support parental notification, and 86%
favor regulating abortion clinics the same as other medical facilities. |
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December 2012:
Gallup poll
found that 64 percent of Americans felt abortion should
generally be illegal after three months of pregnancy. (pdf) |
December 2012: Marist poll commissioned
by the Knights of Columbus, titled "Abortion in America: Trends over
Time", finds that 10% of Americans believe abortion should be illegal in all
cases; 12% say it should only be legal to save the life of the mother; 34%
say it should be legal only in cases of rape or incest or to save the life
of the mother; and 27% believe it should be legal – at most – in the first
three months of pregnancy. Six percent say abortion should be legal in the
first six months of pregnancy and 11% believe it should always be legal. |
May 23, 2012:
Gallup Poll says
Americans self-identify as pro-life by a 50%-41% margin. 41% is the lowest
"pro-choice" number since Gallup has been polling on this. |
May 22, 2012:
Gallup Poll finds
that 51% of American adults believe that abortion is “morally wrong” and 38%
believe that it is “morally acceptable.” |
February 16, 2012:
CNN: Americans
Oppose Obama HHS Mandate 50-44 Percent (pdf) |
January 21, 2012:
Fox News Poll:
Shows 50% of the public self-identifies as pro-life and 42% pro-choice. Fox
notes that this is a near reversal of the figures from four years ago, when
people identified themselves as pro-choice by a 51% to 40% margin. |
January 5, 2012:
Rasmussen Poll - 49% of
Voters Are Pro-Choice, 43% Pro-Life (pdf) |
January 1, 2012:
Marist poll: Knights
of Columbus showing that a majority of Americans want abortion restricted
to, at most, cases involving rape, incest, or life of the mother. |
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September 10, 2011:
CNN Poll:
Shows 62% of registered voters say abortion should be illegal in all
circumstances or "legal in a few circumstances" while 37% say it should be
legal in "most" or "any" circumstances. The poll covers a wide variety of
subjects; the abortion questions are #21 and #22. |
August 26, 2011:
Rasmussen poll: 48%
consider themselves "pro-choice" and 43% pro-life, but that also found that
55% say abortion is morally wrong most of the time. |
July 25, 2011:
Gallup Poll asks
people if they favor laws restricting abortion, with generally pro-life
results. |
July 2011:
Harris Poll shows
increased pro-abortion support, but it changed its methodology this year to
an online-only poll, thereby changing the poll dynamic and eliminating those
who don't regularly use the internet. |
It should be noted that both polls above (July 2011
Gallup and Harris polls) misstate the content of pre-abortion ultrasound
bills -- they ask people if they favor bills that "require" women to look at
ultrasound images of their babies; the bills only require that women be
offered the chance to look at the sonograms. |
June 6, 2011:
Gallup Poll showing that
Republicans are solidly pro-life and Democrats less solidly pro-choice. Age
wise, the most pro-life group of Republicans are those 18-34. |
May 31, 2011: USA Today/Gallup poll
listing a number of subjects and asking people if they find them "morally
acceptable" or "morally wrong." In the 2011 poll, 51% found abortion morally
wrong, with 39% saying it's morally acceptable. On assisted suicide, 48%
said it was morally wrong and 45% morally acceptable. [PDF
of Poll] [PDF of
Summary] |
May 23, 2011: Gallup Poll that shows 49% of the American public
self-identifying as pro-choice and 45% pro-life. It also, however, shows
that 61% think abortion should be legal in few or no circumstances. [PDF
of Poll] [PDF of
Summary] |
March 23, 2011:
Poll by
The Hill newspaper showing 42% of likely voters support defunding
Planned Parenthood and 46% oppose. The poll's margin of error is +/- 3%.
(PDF) |
March 10, 2011:
Rasmussen poll on
abortion showing 44% call themselves pro-life; 42% pro-choice. It also
shows that 65% support a 72-hour waiting period for abortion. The poll
also shows that people would support a bill that requires women to look at
ultrasounds of their babies prior to abortion by a 48% to 38% margin. (PDF) |
March 3, 2011: A Pew Research Center poll found that 54% of respondents
think abortion should be legal in all or most instances while 42% said it
should be illegal in all or most instances. [PDF
of portion dealing with abortion] [PDF
of full text of poll] |
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August 12, 2010:
This poll from
Rasmussen Reports finds 48% of voters believe that it's too easy to obtain
an abortion in the U.S. While it finds that 49% self-identify as
"pro-choice" and 43% as pro-life, it also says that by a two-to-one margin,
pro-lifers are more likely than pro-choicers to consider abortion when
deciding how to vote. (PDF) |
July 10, 2010:
AngusReid Public
Opinion Poll: Abortion (PDF) |
May 26, 2010:
Gallup
poll of what the public finds to be "morally acceptable" or "morally wrong."
By a margin of 50% to 38%, the public finds abortion to be morally wrong.
(PDF) |
May 14, 2010:
Gallup Poll showing 47% of Americans identifying themselves as pro-life and
45% as pro-choice. (PDF) |
April 28, 2010:
Gallup Poll: Education Trumps Gender in Predicting Support for Abortion
(PDF)
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March 12, 2010:
Gallup Poll that shows young people becoming more pro-life; in fact, they're
more pro-life than any age group besides those 65 and older. |
March 8, 2010:
Gallup Poll that measures whether people want abortion illegal in all cases,
legal in all cases, or legal only in certain cases. It also breaks down the
numbers by Democrat and Republican. |
February 10, 2010:
Angus Reid Public Opinion
poll on euthanasia (PDF) |
February 10, 2010:
Knights of
Columbus/Marist poll on many subjects. Pages 16 and 17 of the poll
report on the percentages of the public that believe abortion and
euthanasia, among other things, are morally wrong. The poll focuses on
"Catholic Millennials" (those aged 18-29), but covers all age groups and the
general public as well. It finds that 66% of Catholic Millennials say
abortion is morally wrong while 57% of the general public agrees. (PDF) |
January 21, 2010:
Marist Poll showing that 56% of Americans say abortion is morally wrong,
19% say it's morally acceptable, and 25% say it's not a moral issue. (PDF) |
January 5-11, 2010:
Quinnipiac poll showing 67% oppose
abortion funding in the health care bill. In the PDF, there's a
link to the entire poll, but we isolated the abortion related questions.
(PDF) |
January 2010:
poll
by the Canadian firm Angus Reid. It shows that Americans favor a
ban on abortion coverage in federally subsidized health care insurance by
44% to 42%. It has other findings, such as that 74% of Americans favor
parental consent. (PDF) |
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December 28, 2009:
Rasmussen poll showing
that by a 53%-40% margin, Americans favor a ban on abortion coverage in any
health insurance plan that receives federal subsidies. (PDF) |
December 22, 2009:
This Quinnipiac poll shows that the public opposes using taxpayer funds for
abortion in the health reform bill by a 72%-23% margin. Question 25
is the abortion-related question. (PDF) |
December 2009:
This Pew poll deals with
Latinos' views on abortion. It shows that 56% say abortion should be illegal
in all or most instances while only 37% say it should be legal. The numbers are
broken down by age and by first, second, and third generation American Latinos.
(PDF) |
November 19, 2009:
Pew Research poll says 55%
say abortion should not be a covered benefit while only 28% say it should;
and of those who oppose the health care bill, 56% cite abortion as "a major
reason" and 21% cite it as "a minor reason." So, while Pew says abortion
"plays a small role in health reform opposition," 77% of those who oppose the
bill cite abortion as a reason for their opposition. (PDF) |
November 18, 2009:
CNN/Opinion poll that
shows by a 61%-37% margin, the public opposes using public money to pay for
abortions. (PDF) |
November 17, 2009:
CBS News poll that shows that
by a 56%-34% margin, the public believes government subsidies should not be used
to pay for abortions. (PDF) |
October 14, 2009:
The Centers
for Disease Control reports that the abortion rate in the U.S. declined by
35% from 1990 to 2005. It states that 1.2 million abortions were performed
in 2005. (PDF) |
October 6, 2009:
"Ohio Cultural Index Poll"
commissioned by Ohio Right to Life measures Ohio opinion on cultural issues on a
quarterly basis. The latest poll finds that 52% of Ohioans oppose abortion
and 72% oppose public funding of abortion. (PDF) |
October 2, 2009:
Fox News
poll shows declining support for health care reform. 33% now support it; 53%
oppose it. Two weeks ago, the figures were 38%-48%. (PDF) |
October 1, 2009 Pew Poll:
Polls conducted in 2009 have found fewer Americans expressing support for
abortion than in previous years. (PDF) |
October 1, 2009:
Gallup
Poll showing an increase in support for the proposition that government should
promote "traditional values" (53%) as opposed to the government not favoring any
values (42%). Last year, the Gallup Poll found the public evenly split 48% -
48%. The biggest shift toward traditional values has come among "moderates" and
"independents (PDF) |
September 22, 2009:
Poll commissioned by the Bishops'
Conference shows that 67% of the public oppose using tax money for abortions and
56% oppose forcing people to pay for abortion through health insurance premiums.
68% said they didn't want abortion covered in their own policies; 24% said they
did. (PDF) |
September 21, 2009:
This is the first ever poll of
Religious Activists conducted by the University of Akron and Public Religion
Research. The poll contrasts religious conservatives with religious
"progressives" and finds that 95% of conservatives think that abortion should be
illegal in all or most cases, while 80% of progressives think it should be legal
in all or most cases. The portions of the poll dealing with abortion appear on
pages 15-17 (PDF) |
September 9, 2009:
Poll commissioned by the Susan B.
Anthony List showing public support, especially among Republicans and
Independents, for excluding abortion from health care reform. (PDF) |
August 17:
NBC/Wall
Street Journal poll shows that by a margin of 50%-37%,
the public believes that the health care bill will result in government funding
of abortion. The poll has many questions about Obama and health care, but the
one relevant question on abortion is Question 15. (PDF) |
August 11, 2009:
Harris Poll on abortion shows support for Roe v. Wade has dropped from
56%-40% in 2007 to 51%-44% now. The poll question, however, describes Roe as
having legalized abortion in the first three months of pregnancy. |
August 4, 2009:
Gallup Poll
on Abortion (PDF) |
July 2009:
Abortion in
America - A Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll (PDF) |
May 21, 2009:
Americans United for Life Poll showing the public's opposition to the abortion
positions of potential Obama Supreme Court nominees (PDF) |
May 15, 2009:
Gallup Poll: More
Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time (PDF). |
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May 18, 2009:
Fox News poll showing
virtually the same thing as the May Gallup poll. In the Fox Poll, Americans call
themselves pro-life by a 49%-43% margin. (PDF) |
April 30, 2009:
Pew
Poll: Public Takes Conservative Turn on Gun Control, Abortion (PDF) |
April 7, 2009:
Poll on Conscience Rights by the
polling company (PDF) |
March 30, 2009:
Gallup Poll: Catholics Similar
to Mainstream on Abortion, Stem Cells (PDF) |
February 2, 2009:
Gallup Poll: Opinion of Obama's Actions
(PDF) |
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