Gallup poll: Americans want all or most abortions illegal

I bet if we renamed the "Pro-Life" position to "Pro-Forced Birth," or "Anti-Planned Pregnancy," these numbers would change.

I don't have a uterus or children so all I can say is if you have them be responsible for them. Don't raise disrespectful children.

maasanova... why do you even come here? you are constantly proven wrong... you dont agree with any views that most of us hold... do you need somewhere to stand out because you are just another in a sea of angry republicans on the drudge's blog?

your facts and data are proven just plain wrong in the other comments on this post... you dont have to state your opinions to know where you stand on this story... i want government out of my body... thats where i stand on it... its MY god damn body... not YOURS... not the DICK HOLES who run the country... MINE

Yes, and the majority of americans want to be millionairs. Just because somebody says they want something doesn't mean that they should get it, especially if their want infringes on others beleifs and rights.

I find this hard to believe.........

Bullshit! Mandatory abortions for ANYONE under 18 unless you can prove that you can financially support. (Also mandatory abortions if you are republiCON.
Remember, we must clean up the gene pool. A couple of decades and NO MORE republiCONs)

not sure where you are getting your lies. here is a direct quote from the gallup web site:
Gallup's longest-running measure of abortion views asks Americans if abortion should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances.
The plurality of Americans, 50%, continue to choose the middle position on this, saying abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, as majorities or pluralities have since 1975. However, nearly as many, 49%, now hold one of the two more doctrinaire views. This includes 27% wanting abortion legal in all cases and 22% wanting it illegal in all cases.

yeah i'm not statistician or anything (did i even use that word label correctly?) However, I can still interpret this http://www.gallup.com/poll/File/147740/Abortion_110523.pdf their polling methodology as junk. First of all, being Pro life, a person can be "prolife" for themselves, but still not consider it illegal for others. Also, in their own poll 67% of all polled stated that in any or some circumstances it should be legal (question 11). Also, out of the 1018 polled, 600 respondents were landline users vs the remainder, also, I'd like to know the political affiliations by number, not the breakdown in percentage of how republicans vs democrats vs independents feel about abortion, but how many of each or unregistered make up the poll of 1018... the point is, if you look at their methodology you can probably come up with a bunch of questions. Things like land line users being more then 51% (younger demographics are ditching landlines), the times that calls were made, the calls were conducted on Friday - Sunday. I hate these polls. a poll of 1018 people, even if selected across the country will be skewed in different ways, yet inspite of this, 67% of total respondents, answered the most important question with yes, abortions should be legal in the least certain or all circumstances. So Back to me not being a statistician, but I don't know where people are getting the idea that over a classic majority of Americans don't want it legal. Even with Gallups messed up polling, which I personally believe is skewed in favor of the Right (but that's just conspiracy), even with the outrageous methodology, the majority, still appears to accept abortion.
Or I'm totally wrong about everything I just typed and missed something(s). But i doubt it.

Ok this is BS. This is a poll asking 1000 people This is not a majority . Quit reporting it as such. Most polls dont mean didley. There is a Republican rat behind this poll. No one is pro abortion. This is about choice .

i wonder how this poll will go when everyone realizes overpopulation is going to begin starving people
including America

*see climate change affect food production globally*

*it's already begun, food production and starvation. you just don't get the news people*

I'll bet if they changed the question to do you want a choice or do you want no choice then that poll would be fliped. This is not about your philosophical questions of life and divinity this is about the choice of the thinking Female to choose what to do with her body and any thing growing within it. period.

I'll take a guess "few" would be after the first trimester only if there's a health issue.

Polls can be swayed to say anything you want. This is not a reflection of the heart and mind of the US. I call bullshit on this poll.

well that's good news. liberals are losing this argument as more information becomes available.

From the article:

"Currently, 49 percent of Americans call themselves “pro-choice” on abortion while 45 percent refer to their position as pro-life. That’s a change from the poll last year when 47 percent of Americans said they were pro-life and 45 percent said they were “pro-choice.” However, it is the first time since 2008 that the “pro-choice” position has had the numerical advantage on this Gallup trend."

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Apparently, some poster didn't read the whole article, or didn't read it very well.

FAT poster?
Fiction As Truth

The headline is crap. The interpretation of the poll results is skewed.. purposelessly?http://www.gallup.com/poll/147734/Americans-Split-Along-Pro-Choice-Pro-Life-Line...

The plurality of Americans, 50%, continue to choose the middle position on this, saying abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, as majorities or pluralities have since 1975.

This includes 27% wanting abortion legal in all cases and 22% wanting it illegal in all cases.

Since 1994, Gallup has also asked THOSE WHO THINK ABORTION SHOULD BE LEGAL UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES to say whether it should be legal in "most" or "only a few" circumstances. ON THIS BASIS, Americans are rather conservative in their stance on abortion, with 61% now preferring that abortion be legal in only a few circumstances or no circumstances

Bolding is mine...

More bullshit from one of Current's leading right-wing trolls. The headline is a total misrepresentation of the Gallup poll.

",....NO,....MEANS, NO !"

. . .why ?

"No trespassing",.....MUST be posted to prosecute and self administer 'defense' and ' justice'

- - -so,....society,...all individuals,.....must respect the sign. The "MY LAND; trespassers prosecuted" placard !

again . . . this IS irony/sarcasm/comparison INTENDED

"right to choose" IS "person-hood" based,....if not a straw man built on sand.

. . . ."location, . . .location, . . .location, . . . . "

added to "Culture" . ( ......and "featured". )

This article is somewhat distorted. Here's a link to the results:
http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm

You can look at the results for yourself and draw whatever conclusions you will. But its not quite so cut and dried that 2/3 of Americans oppose abortions.

PROPERTY RIGHTS ! A "Property Rights" issue !
Libertarians rally !
A Woman's' WOMB is her castle / the power to tax is the power to destroy / PRIVATELY OWNED ; NO STOCK SOLD-NO DUEL OWNERSHIP !

NO REGULATION OF PRIVATE ASSETS !

( in case you cant guess - I think "the right to choose" may well be valid,.....but I would turn to OTHER ethical principles in its defense. )

A beautiful photo!

This poll smells of sodahead......