{"id":1479540,"date":"2022-05-18T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479540"},"modified":"2022-05-18T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:31:04","slug":"poll-most-democratic-voters-oppose-the-abortion-policies-their-party-wants-to-nationalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-most-democratic-voters-oppose-the-abortion-policies-their-party-wants-to-nationalize\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Most Democratic Voters Oppose The Abortion Policies Their Party Wants To Nationalize"},"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\">26<\/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-most-democratic-voters-oppose-the-abortion-policies-their-party-wants-to-nationalize%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=1479540&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--><p>Less than 20% of Democratic voters support legal abortion up to birth, even as Democrats attempt to codify that into federal law, a new poll found.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/COSA-Abortion-Full-Report-0511.pdf\">conducted<\/a> May 6-8 by the Trafalgar Group and Convention of States Action, found only 18.8% of Democrats in the survey supported legal abortion up to birth, and 45.3% supported legal abortion only in the first and second trimesters, according to the poll. A combined 35.9% of Democrats thought abortion should be illegal except in certain circumstances, which included the life and health of the mother, rape and incest and a cutoff at the point a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which occurs at around six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats tried to ram through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/s1975\/BILLS-117s1975is.xml\">Women\u2019s Health Protection Act<\/a> (WHPA), sponsored by Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and cosponsored by another 47 of 50 Senate Democrats, on May 11. The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/richard-blumenthal-sex-selective-abortion-womens-health-protection-act\/\">legislation<\/a> would <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/democrats-legalize-third-trimester-abortions\/\">strike down<\/a> all abortion limits in the first six months of pregnancy and force states to allow abortions even in the final trimester, when a child can survive outside the womb, if a healthcare worker finds that a pregnancy could threaten the mother\u2019s mental or physical health.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7337236\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7337236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 OCTOBER 26: Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) speaks during a Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security hearing on Protecting Kids Online: Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube on October 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/jen-psaki-joe-biden-abortion-white-house\/\">refused<\/a> to say whether President Joe Biden supported legal abortion up to the point of birth May 5. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/transgender-health-and-human-services-joe-biden-americans-oppose\/\">(RELATED: POLL: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Biden\u2019s Stance On Sex Changes For Kids)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only 18.8% 0f Democrats and 11.6% of voters overall support the Democratic agenda of abortion on demand and up until birth, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found 13.9% of the general electorate thought <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/jen-psaki-joe-biden-ultra-maga-abortion-roe-v-wave\/\">abortion<\/a> should be illegal except in the case of the life of the mother, 24% thought it should be illegal except in the case of rape, incest or the life of the mother, and 19.7% thought it should be legal until a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which occurs at around 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A combined 57.6% of respondents believed abortion should generally be illegal except in certain cases. Only 11.6% of respondents in the survey believed abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortions, and 30.8% believed it should be legal only in the first and second trimester only.<\/p>\n<p>The poll surveyed 1082 likely general election voters in May with a 2.99% margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 20% of Democratic voters support legal abortion up to birth, even as Democrats attempt to codify that into federal law, a new poll found.The poll, conducted May 6-8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":1483568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479540","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\/1479540","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}