Wide Gender Gap on Importance of Abortion as Election Issue
Fully 54% of women say abortion is a very important issue to their vote, compared with 36% of men — a gap of 18 points.
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Fully 54% of women say abortion is a very important issue to their vote, compared with 36% of men — a gap of 18 points.
On the issue of gun control, Americans have become more conservative in recent years, with 49% now putting the priority on protecting the right of Americans to own guns.
Few U.S. Catholics regard the use of contraceptives as morally wrong, even though the use of contraception is forbidden by church doctrine.
Although it has been a contentious issue in many states, just 28% of voters view gay marriage as a very important issue.
The number of organizations engaged in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy in Washington, D.C., has increased roughly fivefold in the past four decades, from fewer than 40 in 1970 to more than 200 today.
Roughly a quarter of former Catholics who are now religiously unaffiliated say the clergy sexual abuse scandals were a reason for their leaving the Church.
Just 3% of health care opponents cite abortion funding as their main reason for opposing legislation.
About half of Americans say homosexual behavior is morally wrong.
Roughly half of Americans know that Chief Justice Roberts is considered to be a conservative.
Slightly more than a quarter of Catholics think Notre Dame was wrong to invite the president to speak at its commencement; half think it was the right decision.
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