Recent Polls
- A Time/CNN poll
found that 65% of Americans now believe that life begins at conception.
- A Newsweek poll
found that just 24% of Americans believe that human life begins when an
unborn child is “viable” and only 11% believe that human life does not
begin until birth.
- A Gallup poll
found that 61% of Americans want abortions completely ended or greatly
restricted, while only 38% still support abortion-on-demand. In fact, 53%
now believe that abortion is morally wrong – up dramatically from only 2
years ago when only 45% believed so. An even more recent Gallup poll of
teens found that 72% believe that abortion is morally unacceptable with only
19% supporting abortion-on-demand.
- A Gallup poll
found that 56% of women now believe that abortion is morally wrong,
including a majority of women of childbearing age. (This is significant, for
in previous polls, the younger the woman, the less pro-life she was;
however, pro-life views are now growing steadily among younger women. In
fact, a poll by The Polling Company showed that 18-24 year-olds are now the
most pro-life group among women except those over the age of 65.)
- A Time/CNN poll
found that 53% of women of childbearing age (18-35) even believe abortion is
murder.
- A poll conducted
at the pro-abortion Center for the Advancement of Women found that of the
top ten priorities cited by women, keeping abortion legal ranked last. In
fact, only 30% supported abortion-on-demand while 51% supported restricting
abortions to allow only for three exceptions (rape, incest, or physical life
of the mother in danger).
Statistics from the
WallBuilder Report Winter 2004 – Cultural Update