{"id":1074195,"date":"2021-12-01T19:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074195"},"modified":"2021-12-01T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:43:54","slug":"poll-plurality-of-voters-opposed-to-federal-funding-for-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-plurality-of-voters-opposed-to-federal-funding-for-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Plurality of Voters Opposed to Federal Funding for Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-plurality-of-voters-opposed-to-federal-funding-for-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074195&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-176411261-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A plurality of Americans are opposed to the prospect of federal tax dollars funding abortion, a&nbsp;Scott Rasmussen national survey released Wednesday found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder current law, no federal funding may be used to pay for abortions. Should the law be changed so that abortions can be paid for by the federal government?\u201d the survey <a href=\"https:\/\/scottrasmussen.com\/30-favor-federal-funding-for-abortions-49-are-opposed\/\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A plurality, 49 percent, said \u201cno,\u201d laws should not be changed, but just short of a third, 30 percent, said \u201cyes,\u201d they should be changed. Another 21 percent said they are not sure.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Notably, a plurality, not a majority, of Democrats said the law should be changed to allow for taxpayer funded abortion \u2014 47 percent. Meanwhile, a plurality of independents, 48 percent, said it should not be, as did 66 percent of Republicans. Additionally, a majority of women, specifically, 52 percent, said the law should not be changed to fund abortion at the federal level.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.7058823529412\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">30% Favor Federal Funding for Abortions; 49% Are Opposed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NqH4FVirmL\">https:\/\/t.co\/NqH4FVirmL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottWRasmussen\/status\/1466039241138388996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The survey, was conducted by RMG Research Inc. November 29-30, 2021, among 1,200 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over taxpayer funded abortion remained a point of contention during the process of crafting President Biden\u2019s radically left reconciliation bill, as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), a moderate Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/30\/joe-manchin-reconciliation-bill-cannot-support-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\">made it clear<\/a> he would not support a bill that did not include the Hyde Amendment, which largely prohibits taxpayer-funded abortions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>It has to be. It has to be. That\u2019s dead on arrival if that\u2019s gone,\u201d the senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/30\/joe-manchin-reconciliation-bill-cannot-support-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/\">said<\/a> in September.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">The news coincides with the Supreme Court\u2019s first day of oral arguments for&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, which poses a threat to the 1<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">973&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>&nbsp;decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">The&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>&nbsp;specifically looks at Mississippi\u2019s Gestational Age Act, which bars abortions after 15 weeks. The Supreme Court is posed to look at<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;\u201cwhether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"20.280701754386\">\n<p>The case is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/17\/supreme-court-to-hear-historic-mississippi-abortion-case\/\"><i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/i><\/a>, No. 19-1392 in the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plurality of Americans are opposed to the prospect of federal tax dollars funding abortion, a\u00a0Scott Rasmussen national survey released Wednesday found. \u201cUnder current law, no federal funding may be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}