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More Polls Show Support For Roe v. Wade

Posted on the 23 January 2013 by Jobsanger

More Polls Show Support For Roe v. Wade Last week I posted about a Pew Research Center survey that showed the American public still supports the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision (which legalized abortion in the United States -- at least in the first trimester). That poll showed that 63% of the population does not want that decision overturned.
Now, in this year marking the 40th anniversary of the court decision, two more polls have come out showing a majority of the population does not want the Roe v. Wade decision overturned. The Gallup Poll showed 53% still supporting the decision, while the NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll showed a whopping 70% supported the decision. Whether it's 53%, 63%, or 70%, it is clear that a majority of Americans do not want the decision overturned.
And it is equally clear, as the chart above shows, that only a tiny portion of the public (less than 30%) in all three polls expressed any desire to see the court decision overturned. In the last 40 years, the anti-choice crowd has done everything they could to change the minds of the American people -- and they have had no success at all.


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