Polling Reveals That American People Are Not on the Side of Democratic Position of Abortions without Limits

Loading

by Rebecca Downs

This week has been a whirlwind with the abortion issue finding its way front and center into politics, after a draft showing that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked. It’s also been a week to remind where people stand on the abortion, which is not with the Democrats.
 
As I highlighted earlier in the week, the NRSC released internal polling to support messaging that it’s Republicans who have the winning position among voters with commonsense restrictions and regulations, while Democrats unpopularly advocate for abortion throughout up until birth.
 
One such result from that poll found that by 55-35 percent, voters believe the “Supreme Court should allow the states to ban late-term abortions.” The draft that was leaked applies to a decision for Dobbs v. Jackson, which is deciding the constitutionality of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
 
It wasn’t merely an internal poll released earlier this week, though.
 
Earlier this week, Fox News released their polling showing that by 54-41 percent, respondents support the 15-week ban. Further, a plurality of respondents, at 43 percent, want abortion to be “mostly illegal.” The poll was conducted April 28-May 1, just before the draft was leaked.
 
Guy, in his reporting earlier this week, referred to the poll as a “Narrative Buster,” especially as women support the ban more so than men do.
 
There’s still more.
 
Last month, the Wall Street Journal released polling showing that a plurality of respondents, by 48-43 percent, support that 15-week ban on abortion.
 
Polling released last June by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research showed even greater support, for more limits. Sixty-five percent of respondents said abortion should be generally illegal in the second trimester, and 80 percent said it should be generally illegal in the third trimester.
 
Gallup, which regularly conducts polling on abortion, has found similar support for making abortion illegal at those points.
 
Polling from recent months that was provided to Townhall by Richard Baris, the director of Big Poll Data, found that by 67.2 to 17.1 percent, respondents oppose abortion being legal in the last three months of pregnancy, while 15.7 percent are unsure. It’s worth highlighting that women are more likely to oppose such abortions being legal, at 68.4 percent.
 
Democrats point to how a majority of respondents do not want to see Roe overturned. A major reason for that, though, is because many don’t know overturning Roe will not automatically ban abortion nationwide, as they have been led to fear. Rather, it will allow the states to decide their own abortion laws through their elected officials. I’ve addressed this in depth before.
 
Michael J. New, writing for Live Action News, pointed out on Friday that “This week’s mainstream media polls on Roe v. Wade continue to mislead.”
 
Marc Thiessen, a columnist for The Washington Post made a similar point, and even had a warning for Democrats, with “Watch out, Democrats. The abortion ruling may help Republicans.”
 
Democrats would be smart to take such advice.
 
When asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy during Thursday’s press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tried to dodge directly answering as to if President Joe Biden supports any limits on abortion, and if he supports abortion up until the moment of birth. She instead emphasized how the president “supports the right of a woman to make choices about her own body with her own doctor.”
 
In other words, Biden doesn’t support any limits, and he supports abortion up until birth.
 


 
Such purposeful vagueness and non-answers are a pattern.
 
[the_ad id=”157875″]
 
Doocy also referenced Rep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic nominee looking to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio. During an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, who asked him multiple times if he supported “any limits on abortion,” Ryan answered “you gotta leave it up to the woman” and claimed Baier and he “can’t account for all the different scenarios.”
 


 
Another Ohio Democrat, gubernatorial nominee Nan Whaley, refused to give an answer to host Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press Daily” as to whether she supported any limits, even when prompted multiple times.
 


 
In Texas, Beto O’Rourke, who is now running for governor, answered “this is a decision for a woman to make.” He also falsely claimed that “most of us in Texas agree on” that point. Polling from last October, shortly after the Texas’ abortion law went into effect, shows most Texans support the bill once they know a fetal heartbeat is detected at around six weeks.
 
Democratic senatorial candidates in Pennsylvania, who are running to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, have been a little more forthcoming.
 
John Fetterman, the current lieutenant governor, was asked during a Democratic primary debate if there were any limits he “would find appropriate.” He responded with “I don’t believe so, no.”

Read more
 

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
11 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

I guess, technically, I am pro-choice because, as a man, I don’t think it’s my business. While I don’t necessarily believe life begins at conception, it does begin sometime long before birth. Therefore, there is a moment when abortion is no longer abortion but murder.

If this were not the case, the left wouldn’t be so afraid of discussing it. Instead, they take the anti-science position that life doesn’t begin until it is convenient. That’s the source of their problem.

Note that except on mostly religious grounds, most people, like myself, might find abortion disgusting but didn’t object to a woman’s choice. It wasn’t until the left took the position that death of a baby is noting to bother with right up to the moment of birth, and beyond. That’s barbaric.

Cases like Tiller, Gosnell and Karpen steeled my opinion and made it clear how barbaric, ghoulish and murderous the left can be regarding abortion. No nation on earth has such a view of abortion. The left loves to emulate Europe on social issues, yet their abortion laws are as restrictive as the most restrictive here. At some point, the left will have to admit they don’t get to murder out of convenience. They’ll have to learn personal responsibility.

It is a losing issue for November

It’s the duty of men to screen their woman’s voting choices before the ballot is dropped.

It’s the duty of men to screen their woman’s voting choices before the ballot is dropped.

Are you being facetious?

05/07/22 – Supreme Court’s Roe ruling would trample the religious freedom of every Jewish American

The Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade sent shock waves throughout our country when it was leaked this week. If the ruling stands, abortion access would be decimated in huge swaths of the country, and the rights of Americans everywhere will depend on whether they happen to live in a blue state or in a red state. Beyond being a violation of the human rights of pregnant people, limiting access to abortion is an imposition of governmental Christianity on us all.

And it infringes on the religious liberty of every American Jew.

For Jews, it is no exaggeration to say that access to abortion services isn’t just tolerated, it is a religious requirement, and has been for thousands of years.

Surprised? Let’s dig into some of the texts.

In Exodus chapter 21:22 of the Torah, we see a clear statement that a fetus is not a person: “When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensues, the one responsible shall be fined.” This stands in sharp contrast with the next verse, which makes clear that if the pregnant person themselves is injured, then the punishment is “a life for a life, an eye for an eye.”

The Torah couldn’t be more explicit: A fetus is not the same as a human life.

The Talmud, a central religious text for Jews written over 1,400 years ago, makes this even clearer by stating that “a fetus is considered a part of the pregnant person’s body, equivalent to their thigh.”

Even earlier, we hear in the foundational legal text the Mishnah, written 1,800 years ago, that if a pregnant person is set to be executed, that execution should not be delayed unless the person is literally in labor, for the fetus is not an independent life until it can breathe on its own.

In a different section of the Mishnah we are told explicitly that if “a person is having trouble giving birth (and their life is in danger) they must abort the fetus, because existing life always comes before potential life. If, however, most of the child has come out already they do not touch it, for we do not push off one life for another.”

Perhaps no idea is more central in classical Jewish legal texts thinking about abortion than that of the “Rodef” or “the pursuer.” Rodef is a legal category in Judaism for someone or something that is about to kill another human being. Jewish law obligates us to stop a Rodef at any cost — up to and including taking the life of an aggressor. A pregnancy that endangers life is considered a Rodef, and thus it must be terminated.

This is what rabbis mean when we say that “access to abortion is a religious requirement for Jews.” Because there are situations where Judaism doesn’t just allow abortion. In fact, tradition requires abortion when the life of the pregnant person is threatened.

Jewish legal rulings from the last 1,000 years additionally make it clear that there are other circumstances beyond a pregnant person’s life being in physical danger where an abortion must be performed. Judaism also recognizes personal well-being, mental health and all sorts of other situations where a person might choose to terminate a pregnancy.

What we — a rabbi and a Washington state legislator — have presented here are Jewish texts showing why access to abortion services are a religious requirement for Jewish Americans. But the beauty of our country is the diversity of backgrounds and experiences which we weave together into the tapestry of America. Many Christians interpret these biblical verses differently. Which is fine! American Jews aren’t interested in imposing our faith on our neighbors; we just ask that our neighbors not impose their faith on us.

That is the exact point of the First Amendment — to protect minority religions’ free exercise of religion, including abortion. And that is exactly why this draft Supreme Court opinion, this reversal of abortion access, is so wrong, so un-American, and is a threat to the human dignity and religious liberty of us all.

Daniel Bogard is a rabbi at Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis. Tana Senn is a Washington state representative and co-president of the National Association of Jewish Legislators.

Keep digging. The Leftist ideals have failed, and they will removed either through the vote in November, or as traitors when they try to rig more elections after.

Murder isn’t a right.

Poll, 65 Percent of Americans See Current Inflation Problem Lasting a Year or More
comment image

Roe v Wade is but a hiccup, a losing campaign issue at this point…

As corporal cue ball once said, “It is the economy stupid”

Last edited 1 year ago by TrumpWon

No, the left is going to have to create ANOTHER disaster to distract from the current disasters.

Yes
This one turned out to be a crash and burn

Pelosi Admits Democrats Are Working to Change SCOTUS Draft Decision on Roe v Wade as Leftists Protest Outside Homes of Conservative Justices (

Why is the legislative branch interfering with another co-equal branch?