Fewer People Are Identifying As 'Pro-Choice' Than Ever Before

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http://www.businessinsider.com/pro-choice-gallup-poll-record-low-2012-5

The surprising result from a new Gallup poll released this morning is that a record-low amount of people now identify themselves as "pro-choice." It's almost the opposite on the other side—identifying as "pro-life" is one point shy of a record high.
Gallup has been tracking these views for the last 17 years, and the "pro-choice" sector has plunged drastically over the past year.
Take a look at the drop in the chart:




However, Gallup's most steady measure of abortion legalization has held pretty constant for the past decade. It found that 52 percent of respondents said that abortion should be legal under "certain circumstances." Every year since 2001, that number has remained more than 50 percent. It has gone as high as 61 percent and as low as 48 percent.

This poll comes on the heels of a separate Gallup poll released yesterday. That poll found that just 38 percent of Americans found abortion to be "morally acceptable," compared with 51 percent that said it was "morally wrong." That has also held steady over the past year.


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[JustAnotherGen]

1. I'm a part of the plunge

I'm pro right to privacy. It's none of my business what another woman chooses to do in any way shape or form as it relates to her body.

When you throw it in neocon's and indieteapublicans faces - they kind of shut up and go away. Because they are all against big gub'mint.

[NightWatcher]

2. I've always hated that wording. If you're not Pro Life

It would stand to reason that you are Anti Life or Pro Death. That's Bullshit

In the case of Roe v Wade the two sides are Pro Privacy With Your Doctor...or Pro The Government Interferring With Your Medical Choices.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Don't forget, a lot of Pro Life people are also Pro War

can't have both.

[SalviaBlue]

6. And pro death penalty.

Can't have me both.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

13. Forgot about death penalty.

SalviaBlue

[SalviaBlue]

18. They are hypocritical in many ways.

Back at you.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. And many anti-death penalty people are pro-choice

[valerief]

3. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go back to 1973 when we were dancing in the streets over abortion. nt

[bluestateguy]

4. I don't expect the lazy media to be intelligent enough to figure this out

Plenty of people are personally pro-life and against abortion, but pro-choice when it comes to government policy.

[Puzzledtraveller]

9. Exactly, I lament that it even has to be a political issue.

But I understand why it is. I do disagree with it's use as a litmus test for party loyalty, Democratic or Republican.

[Aerows]

8. Preachers are in the Pulpits

harping about it.

My sister takes birth control, because her heart cannot tolerate a pregnancy. She adopted two kids. Still, she supported measures to eliminate abortion in my state of MS, and would also make many forms of birth control illegal.

Why? She's an idiot that does not see where fascist Christianism leads. My mother tried to talk some sense into her, since I wouldn't be here had it not been for a D&C (abortion under that law) my mother needed to have due to a bad miscarriage (and the hospital she was in wouldn't give to her because it kept "reading" the fetus as alive, despite the fact that mom was going into sepsis). My father had to move her to a different hospital because he didn't want my sisters mother to die, but she probably still doesn't realize the impact of it because she's an ideologue that really doesn't live in the real world.

It would have consequences for her, but in the church, she listens to whatever pastor is up there preaching no matter how awful the eventuality. She's too short-sighted to realize what will happen once abortion is outlawed. They will (and already have) come for birth control. She doesn't care, I guess, though, because SHE has the resources to deal with such a situation. Poor women do not, so it is irrelevant to her.

That small-minded arrogance about her is why she and I are not close, and why we cannot discuss politics. EDIT: Not to mention that the policies that she is for would have rendered our mother dead before I could be eventually conceived. Just small-minded - not uneducated, she has a Master's degree - just willfully, blindly choosing to be an ignoramus.

[Marrah_G]

10. Polling in generally done on land lines

Most of the younger generations do not have land lines or screen their calls with caller ID.

I think most polls are being answered by older americans.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. You can weight the results by age group to adjust for that

[jeff47]

15. Only so far.

Making younger people's responses "count more" in your poll doesn't change that the younger people you do reach are unlike the rest of their cohort.

[CTyankee]

12. I think the more telling poll question would be "do you want Roe v. Wade reversed?"

We in the pro-choice community have long recognized the exceptions for abortion to be "incest, rape, and me."

Even some of the most strident "pro lifers" always say "my case is different" when it is they who need the abortion...

[Aerows]

14. Incest, Rape and Me

not to mention, "Oh, they won't come for MY birth control because I'm special".

[CTyankee]

16. maddening, isn't it?

It's like the people who agree with repukes on cutting the federal budget. I remember last year some House member floated the idea of a $2,000 deductible for Medicare recipients. I'll bet the poor people who vote for republicans would be all in favor of their aging moms to have to pay that or even that they might have to pitch in. Sure. Watch their face fall...

[Oilwellian]

17. Gallup polls are worthless

I was polled by them a few years ago and at the end of the poll, they asked if I could be put on a list for future polling. I asked them how their polls could be trusted if their calls aren't random, and instead draw from a list? They can skew a poll any way they wish if this is their method of calling.