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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:00 PM
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Gallup poll now shows more Americans "pro-choice" than anti-choice:
Edited on Mon May-23-11 01:12 PM by jenmito
Americans are closely divided between those calling themselves "pro-choice" and those who are "pro-life," now 49% and 45%, respectively, in Gallup's 2011 update on U.S. abortion attitudes. This is similar to a year ago, when 45% were "pro-choice" and 47% "pro-life." However, it is the first time since 2008 that the "pro-choice" position has had the numerical advantage on this Gallup trend.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/147734/Americans-Split-Along-Pro-Choice-Pro-Life-Lines.aspx

Strange that I haven't heard anything about this in the MSM, but when the majority of Americans were supposedly "pro life," that Gallup poll was touted repeatedly.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:13 PM
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1. We need to elect more pro-choice (leave the women alone) at state and federal
legislatures.
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:14 PM
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2. In reality, a majority of Americans
have supported a woman's right to choose, at least in the first part of pregnancy, for many years now.

I always point out that if you're opposed to abortion, then just don't have one.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:20 PM
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3. K&R
:kick:
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craigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:21 PM
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4. More Americans are pro-choice but they're soft in their support so a hardcore fanatical
pro-life movement can sway things by winning elections and framing the debate.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:21 PM
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5. I always thought this question was misleading
Do they actually ask people if abortion should be legal or illegal?

Asking people to simply categorize themselves as pro-choice or pro-life is really more about personal feelings than political opinions.

I know a good many people who would call themselves pro-life because they personally oppose abortion, yet they believe it should remain legal.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:29 PM
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7. I agree. n/t
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:21 AM
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16. true
Edited on Wed May-25-11 01:33 AM by quakerboy
that would be a far better question.

And on reading the article, they did address it.

"Gallup's longest-running measure of abortion views asks Americans if abortion should be legal under any circumstances, legal only under certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances.

The plurality of Americans, 50%, continue to choose the middle position on this, saying abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, as majorities or pluralities have since 1975. However, nearly as many, 49%, now hold one of the two more doctrinaire views. This includes 27% wanting abortion legal in all cases and 22% wanting it illegal in all cases."
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:26 PM
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6. Hey 'liberal' media, where are you catapulting this at?
K&R
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aaaaaa5a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:30 PM
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8. I liken this poll to the same polls that show…..


that the majority of people consider themselves conservative


YET

Still want MEDICARE!



Its the same thing.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 01:43 PM
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9. The Republicans have made plain their intentions to put government between women and their doctors
And, thankfully, it's beginning to show in the polls.
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former9thward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 02:30 PM
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10. Americans are still very conservative about abortion.
The very same poll said that "61% now prefer that abortion be legal in only a few circumstances or no circumstances. By contrast, 37% want abortion legal in all or most circumstances."
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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-23-11 11:04 PM
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11. Got to hand it to the wingnuts. The number of pro-choice used to be much, much higher.
The anti-choice nuts seem to be gaining ground on this. They are so incredibly and brilliantly organized and mobilized at the local and state levels.

Liberals at the grassroots are missing. I don't understand why we aren't standing firmly for choice at the local level. We are ceding this fight to the fucking wingnuts!! That number should be much higher than 49 percent!!!! :puke::puke:
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 12:30 AM
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12. I take a strange position
I'm anti-Roe vs. Wade, but pro-choice.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 03:30 PM
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13. What is your objection to roe?
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 12:08 AM
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15. I just don't think there is any basis of a constitutional right to an abortion
As much as I hate to play fair, if I was an umpire and my favorite player was out, I'd have to call him out. There is no right to do what you want with your own body, or we'd have a right to death and a right to use drugs. With that said, I believe every state should have legalize abortion.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:38 AM
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19. Is Roe not a follow on to Griswold?
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:30 PM
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20. I don't think I understand you
What is Griswold?
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:57 PM
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21. Griswold v. Connecticut preceded Roe v. Wade. It established the right to privacy
found under the 4th Amendment to practice birth control. Without the underlying argument of Griswold there would be no Roe. It leaves to the individual, based on a constitutional right to privacy, the right to decide such matters for oneself. It goes to the heart and soul of what a government can/cannot tell you to do with your own body. And it seems to me that it is not the right of the government to tell people when and whether to bear a child. That is the fundamental difference between this and the other two examples you gave.
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and-justice-for-all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-24-11 03:34 PM
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14. Is it just me or do the pukesticks have a hardon for the things
that people actually support? We like Social Services, so the want to defund'em. We like Medicare, and so they want to cut that...etc etc. The same if we do not like something, for example the middle east occupations, we the people are done with it and the puke-sticks still want to perpetuate it.
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:28 AM
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17. Riddle me this
Edited on Wed May-25-11 01:31 AM by quakerboy
How do 4% of people suddenly start calling themselves pro-choice and 2% stop in the course of a single year? How does this swing back and forth?

They say this is similar to a year ago. But if this is truly to be taken as representative of the US, that means something like 18 million people changed what they call themselves in the course of one year. That seems hard to believe on an issue that virtually anyone I have ever talked to seems to have a fervent set opinion about.

I gotta wonder exactly how accurate this is in reporting what they are trying to report.

Edited to remove a point addressed in the article, which I should have read before responding.
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 05:54 AM
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18. I'll see your riddle and raise you one.
Karl Rove was never a fellow to overlook a chance to throw the electorate into confusion by seizing upon a divisive issue and using it to draw the knuckle-draggers out to the polls.

So why did the Bush Administration avoid abortion like it was ebola?

Perhaps Karl saw something in the polls that Gallup didn't.... Or perhaps he saw different, more reliable polls that were saying something other than what Gallup has been saying all these years...
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