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Poll: Majority, for first time, wants abortion to be legal
As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision takes place on Tuesday, a majority of Americans – for the first time – believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
What’s more, seven in 10 respondents oppose Roe v. Wade from being overturned, which is the highest percentage on this question since 1989. …
By comparison, just 24 percent now want the Roe v. Wade decision overturned, including 21 percent who feel strongly about this position.
Much of this change, the NBC/WSJ pollsters say, is coming from African Americans, Latinos and women without college degrees — all of whom increasingly oppose the Supreme Court decision from being overturned.
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This from a population where 77% of the 18-29 year-olds thought they knew what Roe v. Wade was about… and 3 out of 7 were wrong, leaving only 44% who actually got it right.
michaelo on January 22, 2013 at 8:03 AM
The fish rots from the head down.
Red Cloud on January 22, 2013 at 8:04 AM
It’s OK when the majority wants the unborn to die, but it’s not OK when the majority doesn’t want gay marriage to be officially recognized by the state.
Gotcha.
Badger40 on January 22, 2013 at 8:04 AM
That poll must have been conducted on free Obama Phones.
Today is the walk for life in Washington D.C on the anniversary of the court decision having something to do with health privacy, a joke now, really… I think it is today. I can’t be sure, but I am pretty sure, the media will ignore the crowds of good people standing up for life and the goodness of the gift of nature.
Thus this important NBC statistic played in the media.
Call out the Obama phones. To the Obama phones! A reliable source.
Fleuries on January 22, 2013 at 8:07 AM
QFT
SAZMD on January 22, 2013 at 8:09 AM
The MSM would rather cover ‘protests’ of the occupy movement. Notice how those got wall to wall coverage and not a blip about the WFL?
nazo311 on January 22, 2013 at 8:11 AM
Alternative Headline:
Kill’in Black Babies more socially acceptable by the left.
trs on January 22, 2013 at 8:13 AM
If true it’s a very sad commentary on the future under Obama and the democrat party.
meci on January 22, 2013 at 8:15 AM
That’s good ’cause it IS legal. Some of us have always taken the stand that it should remain legal, just not paid for by public funds. Drinking beer is legal too but I don’t want to pay for it with food stamps.
MikeA on January 22, 2013 at 8:17 AM
This poll doesn’t seem to pass the smell test, especially in light of the fact that pro-life forces have been winning at the State level.
RAN58 on January 22, 2013 at 8:19 AM
Very true and I am proud to be in the minority if this is the case.
Makes me sick!
Tilly on January 22, 2013 at 8:20 AM
Oh please, we’ve already confirmed we’re now comprised of a nation of idiots. Obama, the worst president ever, got reelected didn’t he?
Now they are polling these same idiots and think the rest of us give a crap about the results
We don’t.
fogw on January 22, 2013 at 8:21 AM
To be brutally honest, I’m surprised that it took this long.
OldEnglish on January 22, 2013 at 8:24 AM
I would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned simply because it’s bad law. The case never should have been heard by the SCOTUS in the first place and the court mangled the constitution beyond recognition in making what was really a political decision. The issue should have been left to the states and the people where it was being dealt with at the time, and nine men in black had no business arrogantly deciding these metaphysical questions for us.
RadClown on January 22, 2013 at 8:28 AM
Doesn’t change the fact people use their EBT cards to buy booze and cigarettes.
nazo311 on January 22, 2013 at 8:29 AM
Dead Children in the womb – A Okay.
Dead Children in the Classroom – Political opportunity.
/oppressives
Galt2009 on January 22, 2013 at 8:34 AM
Did I miss when it became illegal? It’s a “female canine” getting old. Major events like making abortion illegal just pass by without notice.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 22, 2013 at 8:45 AM
It’s way beyond that. If you killed the baby of a pregnant women you would be brought up on murder charges even if she was headed into an abortion clinic to have the burden removed.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 22, 2013 at 8:48 AM
Sex selection abortion. Tax payer funding for abortions. Late term abortion. Stick with those and don’t give rambling answers to hypothetical gotcha questions. Instead tell the media stooge to go ask the Democrat why he supports sex selection abortion that kills baby girls.
forest on January 22, 2013 at 8:52 AM
I’d prefer Roe v. Wade be overturned and left up to the states….where nearly every one of them will vote to legalize it, BTW. But I’m a realist and the bottom line is it ain’t gonna be overturned in our lifetime(which means ever). At the bare minimum though, not a dime of taxpayer money should be spent on abortions. You wanna terminate a pregnancy? That’s between you, your doctor, and God. Don’t bring me or my tax dollars into it.
Doughboy on January 22, 2013 at 8:56 AM
Can someone direct me to a place in this country where abortion is illegal?
There are only two questions:
1) Should abortion be available everywhere or should each state decide whether or not to allow abortions within its borders?
2) Should taxpayer money be used to fund abortions?
Odysseus on January 22, 2013 at 9:01 AM
Remember all the press over the last 40 years about how the majority was against abortion?
Golly I sure do… /s
Skywise on January 22, 2013 at 9:02 AM
And who on here was saying that the Pro-Life view is winning?
This isn’t just liberals; a good portion (perhaps even overwhelming majority) of people are just tired of the debate and thus hopes it will go away. That’s what I believe this poll represents.
ckoeber on January 22, 2013 at 9:15 AM
Killing liberals I guess is a good thing. Fortunately these are primarily minority and females getting aborting. If it turns out that it’s white males being aborted then it should stop. But as long as the party of the KKK can convince blacks to kill their own babies then it’s OK.
Flange on January 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM
I think you are mostly right. The way I see it is that abortion is viewed as birth control and a woman’s health issue. This is why the Fluke thing was such a big deal for the liberals. They want abortion to be free and completely unrestricted. They want it from the federal level because they very much dislike state and local rights. A bit OT but, I had a guy ranting to me that he can’t believe that in this day and age that we still have state and local police and laws. His feeling is that all police and laws should be at a federal level in order to bring equality to everyone in the country.
Dr. Frank Enstine on January 22, 2013 at 9:20 AM
I was tired of arguing about it a long time ago. The silver lining is that it’s population control of leftists, predominantly.
juliesa on January 22, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Happy 40th birthday, Roe v Wade!!
thuja on January 22, 2013 at 9:32 AM
As much as I like the result of Row v Wade, I agree with you. I would like to see abortion being made solely a state issue. National elections should be about our conflicting visions of the economy, and not side-issues rarely voted on. Putting abortion and marriage equality solely in the hands of the states would permit more serious discussion of the economy.
thuja on January 22, 2013 at 9:39 AM
No shout out to Hitler or Jefferey Dahlmer?
Flange on January 22, 2013 at 9:40 AM
Polls exist to shape opinion. If you’re told over and over that the majority thinks this way or that way, then eventually that attitude will win out. I think we’re seeing this with the gay marriage issue. A few years ago 70% or so were opposed. We certainly saw that dynamic at work when it came to the nomination of Mitt Romney.
ddrintn on January 22, 2013 at 9:49 AM
It wins by default, for the most part. How many people describe themselves as “pro-abortion”?
ddrintn on January 22, 2013 at 9:53 AM
By the way, did the writer who wrote this actually get PAID for it?
ddrintn on January 22, 2013 at 9:54 AM
That’s not off topic at all. That’s what Roe v. Wade is all about: whether the United States Constitution gives the federal government the right to dictate abortion law to the states.
That’s why this is more than just a social issue to liberals. As long as this utterly insane and idiotic “Constitutional precedent” stands, there is literally nothing outside the Supreme Court’s reach.
logis on January 22, 2013 at 9:55 AM
I’d settle for even this. If it’s impossible to make baby-murder illegal, at the very least quit making my tax dollars pay for Susan Q. Sluttypants’ bailout.
I accept your argument as fully as I accept my premise of repealing it on moral grounds. SCOTUS should not even have heard a syllable of the case; the states were perfectly able to decide for their d@mn selves and should’ve been able to do so!
As it is, the only remaining ways to fight Roe are chip away at it with penny-ante laws or for a governor to outright declare “I refuse to recognize that abomination in my state.” Which would basically be a declaration of open rebellion.
MelonCollie on January 22, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
[26] For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. [27] And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. [28] And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; [29] Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, [30] Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. [32] Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.
Gird your loins.
pannw on January 22, 2013 at 10:41 AM
Garbage in, garbage out.
njrob on January 22, 2013 at 10:43 AM
This idea that liberals will just get rid of themselves is just ill-founded. Where did the vast majority of liberals come from, outside of minorities?
Conservative families.
When you concede the argument, the other side wins by default.
ckoeber on January 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Hence the pro-choice label. The more telling thing to look at is that most people identify as neither, which acgtually puts them in the pro-choice camp.
I would say that most people, and especially pro-choicers, ascribe to the spectrum argument when it comes to abortion, which goes like this:
Now, I have heard of the SLED argument (essentially there is no difference in value between a fetus and a baby) as a response to this, but the spectrum argument goes beyond that; everyone is starting to admit that the fetus is life; the question is now whether the fetus is valuable life that deserves the same protections as a person.
In my mind people won’t assign value to a fetus unless it has clear characteristics of a baby, which is why I believe people are hesitant to overturn Roe Vs. Wade.
ckoeber on January 22, 2013 at 11:23 AM
I agree with not conceding the argument, but I doubt that very many leftists come from conservative families. I expect they come from leftist families and apolitical families where the child goes to school and gets indoctrinated into leftist beliefs. A conservative family typically teaches values that cannot be broken by group think.
njrob on January 22, 2013 at 11:31 AM
It’s fairly safe to say that EVERY liberal had parents who didn’t have an abortion.
That’s how liberals “reproduce.” They take normal people’s children and indoctrinate them while they are malleable.
Of course, by definition, a perfectly strong family can’t be broken. That’s why the first goal of indoctrinating children into Communism is to CAUSE the kinds of strife that alienate children from their parents and strain family bonds. Even if they don’t convert a child now, the next generation will be that much weaker.
Granted, the American government doesn’t yet practice full internment of children. But how many “parents” today would welcome a full-time federal babysitting service as a relief from unwanted responsibility? Now imagine how many would have considered submitting to such an atrocity fifty years ago. See how this process works?
logis on January 22, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Correct. That’s what’s ultimately behind Hillary and her “it takes a village” belief.
njrob on January 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM