{"id":1948888,"date":"2023-06-16T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-americans-still-reject-democrats-unlimited-abortion-agenda\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:06:31","slug":"poll-majority-of-americans-still-reject-democrats-unlimited-abortion-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-americans-still-reject-democrats-unlimited-abortion-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Most Americans Still Oppose Democrats&#8217; Unrestricted Abortion Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-majority-of-americans-still-reject-democrats-unlimited-abortion-agenda%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=1948888&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>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Abortion Polls: The Truth Behind the Headlines<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats and their allies in the corporate media like to pretend that abortion polling offers a larger commentary on the state of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-has-killed-her-hundreds-of-thousands-but-abortion-has-killed-her-tens-of-millions\/\" title=\"COVID Has Killed Her Hundreds of Thousands, But Abortion Has Killed Her Tens of Millions\">pro-life movement<\/a> and the laws that ban ending life in the womb. In reality, those polls are often twisted by these same institutions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/look-how-even-democrat-opinion-shifts-on-abortion-laws-when-polls-stop-using-leftist-framing\/\" title=\"Look How Even Democrat Opinion Shifts On Abortion Laws When Polls Stop Using Leftist Framing\">skew public opinion<\/a> and obscure just how radical their abortion beliefs are.<\/p>\n<p>Take this Gallup abortion poll, conducted in May and released on Thursday, for example.<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t know it from the headline, which boasts \u201cBroader Support for Abortion Rights Continues Post-Dobbs,\u201d but only 37 percent of U.S. adults believe abortion should be allowed during the second trimester.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Democrats\u2019 incessant attempts to normalize their belief that taxpayers should fund abortions up until birth, only 22 percent of those polled said they supported ending life in the womb in the third trimester.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a majority of Americans, 55 percent, think ending life in the womb in the second trimester should be \u201cgenerally illegal.\u201d An even bigger number, 70 percent, think abortion in the third trimester should be outlawed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are the only group saying it should generally be legal in the second trimester,\u201d the poll noted.<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media, Democrats, and even some Republicans make a point to smear heartbeat laws and European-esque first-trimester limits as unpopular and ineffective. Yet, even Gallup\u2019s poll accurately reflects that most Americans support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-takes-up-mississippi-abortion-ban-case-that-could-limit-roe-v-wade\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Takes Up Mississippi Abortion Ban Case That Could Limit Roe v. Wade\">15-week abortion ban<\/a> like the one Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced last year, not Democrats\u2019 abortion extremism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Americans oppose abortion later in pregnancy,\u201d Gallup admits.<\/p>\n<p>The pollster tried to couch this finding with reassurance that \u201cwithin this broad framework, Americans have shifted toward more acceptance of abortion,\u201d but even that isn\u2019t completely accurate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that 69 percent of Americans reportedly think abortion should be legal in the first three months of pregnancy, which is up two percentage points after the Supreme Court\u2019s <em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em> decision was leaked to the press. The biggest increase, however, happened within those who identify as \u201cpro-life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Gallup found that 39 percent of Americans identified as pro-life. Now, 44 percent do. Similarly, 38 percent of U.S. adults told Gallup last year that they believed abortion was \u201cmorally wrong.\u201d This year, after nearly one year of post-<em>Dobbs<\/em> momentum, 41 percent of Americans say ending life in the womb is morally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to remember that polling, especially on abortion, is far from perfect. As Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi once succinctly put it, \u201cAbortion polls are garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-americans-still-reject-democrats-unlimited-abortion-agenda\/\" title=\"Poll: Most Americans Still Oppose Democrats' Unrestricted Abortion Agenda\">popular heartbeat bills<\/a> are sold by pollsters as near-total bans on a woman\u2019s so-called right to choose. When that framing is stripped, American opinions, specifically among Democrats, shift drastically toward the kinds of abortion limits Republican states and European countries have \u2014 the limits Democrats like President Joe Biden despise.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter <strong>@jordanboydtx<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats and their media allies distort abortion polling to manipulate public opinion and conceal the true radical nature of the pro-life movement and laws against ending life in the womb. 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