Half of voters want abortion ruling upheld, poll finds (also same-sex info

[Khephra]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A majority of voters want to know in advance how a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on abortion and half want President Bush to nominate justices who would uphold the decision making abortion legal, a poll released Wednesday found.

The national poll by Quinnipiac University found that 62 percent of voters say a nominee to the high court should publicly state his or her position on abortion. By a 50-34 percent margin, voters say Bush should nominate justices who would uphold the Roe v. Wade decision making abortion legal in the first three months of pregnancy.

"By a big majority, Americans want to know in advance how a Supreme Court nominee would vote on Roe v. Wade. And half of the voters want that nominee to uphold the historic abortion ruling," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

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Nearly two-thirds of voters oppose a law allowing same-sex marriages and by a 51-45 percent margin oppose a law to legalize same sex civil unions. The poll found that 53 percent of voters oppose amending the U.S. Constitution to ban same sex marriage.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--poll-abortion1215dec15,0,7777119.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire