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Opposition to Abortion Is Strong and Growing.
Two things can be said about abortion and public opinion without fear of contradiction. First, Americans increasingly self-identify as pro-life (there is now parity between pro-lifers and "pro-choicers") and not only reject abortion on demand but also disapprove of the reasons for which most women say they obtain almost all abortions. Second, Americans have always been much more pro-life than you would believe if you'd relied on the interpretation of many prominent polling organizations.
How can that be? In some cases, pure bias has kept the public in the dark. As NRLC President Wanda Franz, Ph.D., wrote in her September 2002 NRL News column, "The radical sweep ...
- Only a Small Majority Still Supports Roe v. Wade and Opposition is at Its...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 3, 2005 700+ words
...percent oppose abortion in all circumstances. - A modest...to get an abortion (13...oppose legal abortions in the second...decision making abortions up to three...TABLE 3 FAVOR ABORTION IN ALL, SOME, OR NO CIRCUMSTANCES "In general...
- Amnesty International backs access to abortion in some circumstances.(WORLD)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Filteau, Jerry May 25, 2007 700+ words
...abortion in some circumstances as "part of its...opposed forced abortion, sterilization...contraception in all circumstances" and "opposes sex-selective abortion." It says that...disability-selective abortions, which raise...
- More Americans "Pro-Life" Than "Pro-Choice" for First Time; Also, fewer think...
- Magazine article from: Gallup Poll News Service Saad, Lydia May 15, 2009 700+ words
...terms of the circumstances in which Americans think abortion should be...currently say abortion should be...under certain circumstances. When the...they believe abortion should be...only a few circumstances -- Gallup...
- Abortion Rates Vary; `Individual Circumstances' Called the Major Factor
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Don Colburn October 11, 1988 700+ words
...women to undergo abortions, a new national...relatively high abortion rate among Catholics...Differences in abortion rates, Rosoff...s individual circumstances than with religious...have the highest abortion rates. The high...likely to have abortions than Jewish or...
- Religion (Iran's religious leader advises abortion in certain circumstances).
- Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine Celeste McGovern October 23, 2000 700+ words
The Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, Iran's supreme religious leader, issued a religious dictum requiring parents to abort babies if there is a positive prenatal diagnosis of thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder. "If there exists a definite diagnosis in the embryonic state, to deliver or raise such a child
- In certain circumstances, women in prenatal care would not rule out having an...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Hollander, D. December 1, 2005 700+ words
...birth, and half had had an abortion. Thirty-eight percent had...of the women believed that abortion should be available without...its availability in specific circumstances (mainly, when a pregnancy...or incest); 8% opposed abortion availability under any condition...
- MOST IN US FAVOR BAN ON MAJORITY OF ABORTIONS, POLL FINDS RAPE, INCEST,...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ethan Bronner, Globe Staff March 31, 1989 700+ words
...ban most abortions performed...under several circumstances cited, the...one of the circumstances cited, in...would ban abortion, but the...in another circumstance, in which...would ban abortion.) Most...majority of abortions performed...in limited circumstances, ...
- Ipas: unsafe abortion, a threat to women's health. (News and Meetings).
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Journal April 1, 2002 700+ words
...injuries from unsafe abortion, including by training...provide safe, timely abortion care. For example...countries agreed that "in circumstances where abortion is not against the...usually following abortions performed by unqualified...
Source: HighBeam Research, Opposition to Abortion Is Strong and Growing.