New High: 52% Are Pro-Choice (Rasmussen poll)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 08/06/2012 | Scott Rasmussen

[SeekAndFind]

More voters than ever are now pro-choice when it comes to abortion, but just as many view it as morally wrong in most situations.

Overall, 52% of Likely U.S. Voters consider themselves pro-choice when it comes to abortion, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Forty-one percent (41%) say they are pro-life. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 31-August 1, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology.

[CodeToad]

These polls are meaningless. Dozens a day come out and none are correct. Anyone that listens to pollsters is an idiot.

[rarestia]

More voters than ever are now pro-choice when it comes to abortion, but just as many view it as morally wrong in most situations.

Okay, so you're either lying about the statistics and trying to make the article favor your view, or you're linguistically incompetent.

[SeekAndFind]

Who’s “you”?

[MNDude]

wait...wasn’t it just record low a few months ago.

[Sacajaweau]

These polls are simple “brain washing”....just like the gay cr** on TV.

[TheBattman]

#1 we all know how “reliable” these polls are, particularly when they focus on a particular agenda..

#2 we also know that the US has a huge population of idiot sheep who go with whatever they perceive is the “popular” position. If a poll comes out that supposedly shows Americans in favor of cutting off the arms of the “rich” to even things out, the idiots would jump on the bandwagon simply because they refuse to think for themselves.

[EGPWS]

I’m curious as to if the numbers would be the same if it were stated as “pro abortion”.

[Dante3]

Probably not.

[SeekAndFind]

wait...wasn’t it just record low a few months ago.

GALLUP just did a survey a few months ago. See this link . I can't believe that there's a sudden change in attitude between May 2012 and August 2012. One of these two polls is inaccurate. So, who to believe, Gallup or Rasmussen?

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Americans now tilt "pro-life" by nine-point margin, 50% to 41%

The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as "pro-choice" is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call themselves "pro-life," one point shy of the record high, also from May 2009.

Gallup began asking Americans to define themselves as pro-choice or pro-life on abortion in 1995, and since then, identification with the labels has shifted from a wide lead for the pro-choice position in the mid-1990s, to a generally narrower lead for "pro-choice" -- from 1998 through 2008 -- to a close division between the two positions since 2009. However, in the last period, Gallup has found the pro-life position significantly ahead on two occasions, once in May 2009 and again today. It remains to be seen whether the pro-life spike found this month proves temporary, as it did in 2009, or is sustained for some period.

The decline in Americans' self-identification as "pro-choice" is seen across the three U.S. political groups.

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[Uncle Slayton]

They must have polled a bunch of women.

As it is, almost 30% of American women have had abortions.

[rarestia]

The writer of the article.

Sorry, Seek, I didn’t mean to implicate you personally in this.

[SeekAndFind]

GALLUP just did a survey a few months ago. See this link . I can't believe that there's a sudden change in attitude between May 2012 and August 2012. One of these two polls is inaccurate. So, who to believe, Gallup or Rasmussen?

EXCERPT

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Americans now tilt "pro-life" by nine-point margin, 50% to 41%

The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as "pro-choice" is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call themselves "pro-life," one point shy of the record high, also from May 2009.

Gallup began asking Americans to define themselves as pro-choice or pro-life on abortion in 1995, and since then, identification with the labels has shifted from a wide lead for the pro-choice position in the mid-1990s, to a generally narrower lead for "pro-choice" -- from 1998 through 2008 -- to a close division between the two positions since 2009. However, in the last period, Gallup has found the pro-life position significantly ahead on two occasions, once in May 2009 and again today. It remains to be seen whether the pro-life spike found this month proves temporary, as it did in 2009, or is sustained for some period.

The decline in Americans' self-identification as "pro-choice" is seen across the three U.S. political groups.

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST...

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Sorry, Seek, I didn’t mean to implicate you personally in this.

No need to apologize. Sometimes outrage at what one reads ( I was ) causes one to write posts too quickly. :)

[puppypusher]

Well hell I’m pro-choice.i believe woman should use birth control prior to having relations instead of aborting the fetus after the fact.

[vet7279]

This is not an issue the federal government should be addressing, nor should it be paying for it. This should be handled by the jurisdiction that issues the business license. Each “community” should be allowed to be different and determine what businesses are allowed based on zoning and licensing tools. I am against “abortion for convenience” however this continual drive to outlaw abortion at the federal level will not be enforceable, just like prohibition and the war on drugs, we will simply drive it underground into dangerous environments. We are really destroying our own “conservative” missions with this debate as EVERY piece of legislation and every conversation is derailed over abortion.

[cableguymn]

I know it’s kind of difficult.. but if you poll the ones killed during the abortion you would get a MUCH different result.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say 100% of the humans killed during abortions are pro-life.

[Mouton]

Another indication we are on the road to predition.

[Jewbacca]

“These polls are meaningless. Dozens a day come out and none are correct. Anyone that listens to pollsters is an idiot.”

Yes and no.

First, Assuming (a large assumption) the methodolgy remains constant, they do show trends, which is valuable information.

Second, I do believe the “topic” type polls tend to be more accurate than a “person” (who are you going to vote for) type polls.

Third, Rasmussen is a good polling outfit, and without the absurd bias of Gallup, etc.

Finally, this poll is unfortunate; I understood the trend to be the other direction.

[CodeToad]

“continual drive to outlaw abortion at the federal level will not be enforceable, just like prohibition and the war on drugs, we will simply drive it underground into dangerous environments. “

So? Rape is also something that probably can never be wiped out, so I guess maybe every girl should just line up for it.