More Americans now consider themselves pro-choice than pro-life
New Gallup polling shows that 50 percent of Americans identify with the "pro-choice" label. Forty-four percent identify as "pro-life."
Much of the shift looks to be happening among middle-age Americans. Support for abortion rights among people between the ages of 35 and 55 grew from 40 percent in 2012 to 52 percent this year.
The shift in favor of abortion rights has happened at a time when states have increasingly restricted access to abortion. States passed 231 abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2014 — more than the prior three decades combined. And more generally, separate Gallup polling shows that Americans have become more permissive on social issues over the past 15 years or so, whether that's abortion rights or babies out of wedlock or divorce. "The broader liberal shift in Americans' ideology of late could mean the recent pro-choice expansion has some staying power," Gallup analysts write.
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/29/8687325/gallup-abortion-pro-choice
