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2. Social and moral considerations on abortion
Americans express a range of strong emotions when asked to describe feelings on abortion
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- 2. Social and moral considerations on abortion
- Wide religious and partisan differences in views of the morality of abortion
- Roughly half of Americans say there are situations where abortion is morally wrong, but should still be legal
- Americans more likely to say additional support for women would reduce the number of abortions than say the same about stricter laws
- Republicans more likely than Democrats to say passing stricter abortion laws would reduce number of abortions in the United States
- Seven-in-ten Democrats say women should have more say than men in setting abortion policy in the U.S.
- About half of U.S. adults say if legal abortions are too hard to get, women will seek out unsafe ones
- Most Democrats say decisions about abortion should fall solely to pregnant women
- Nearly three-quarters of White evangelicals say human life begins at conception
- One-third of U.S. adults say both that abortion decision belongs solely to the pregnant woman, and that life begins at conception and fetuses have rights
- Americans express a range of strong emotions when asked to describe feelings on abortion