How much time should a woman have to obtain a legal abortion: The woman’s health is seriously endangered (February 2024)
category | Total |
---|---|
Never | 8% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 21% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 40% |
Don't know | 8% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 4% | 10% | 11% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 14% | 21% | 28% |
Within 12 weeks | 9% | 11% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 7% | 7% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 0% | 6% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 57% | 39% | 25% |
Don't know | 4% | 12% | 8% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 4% | 5% | 3% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 5% | 15% | 16% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 10% | 9% |
Within 24 weeks | 5% | 10% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 6% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 69% | 50% | 57% |
Don't know | 4% | 5% | 4% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 8% | 5% | 16% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 29% | 26% | 29% |
Within 12 weeks | 15% | 15% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 8% | 10% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 9% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 29% | 30% | 21% |
Don't know | 7% | 5% | 10% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 3% | 5% | 13% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 13% | 17% | 28% |
Within 12 weeks | 7% | 10% | 15% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 8% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 6% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 62% | 40% | 24% |
Don't know | 4% | 14% | 7% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 3% | 1% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 8% | 20% | 11% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% | 5% | 4% |
Within 24 weeks | 5% | 7% | 6% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 6% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 58% | 56% | 70% |
Don't know | 5% | 2% | 5% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 6% | 9% | 21% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 22% | 27% | 33% |
Within 12 weeks | 18% | 16% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% | 10% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 7% | 4% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 30% | 32% | 14% |
Don't know | 6% | 2% | 12% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 10% | 4% | 7% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 18% | 23% | 26% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% | 13% | 7% |
Within 24 weeks | 8% | 8% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 5% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 40% | 37% | 38% |
Don't know | 6% | 10% | 10% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Never | 7% | 8% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 23% | 19% |
Within 12 weeks | 12% | 10% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 9% |
Within 36 weeks | 7% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 39% | 41% |
Don't know | 7% | 8% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 8% | 14% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 21% | 20% | 23% |
Within 12 weeks | 12% | 12% | 8% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 5% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 4% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 39% | 43% | 35% |
Don't know | 7% | 8% | 8% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 10% | 11% | 6% | 6% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 26% | 13% | 23% | 23% |
Within 12 weeks | 12% | 12% | 7% | 15% |
Within 24 weeks | 8% | 8% | 9% | 5% |
Within 36 weeks | 8% | 5% | 4% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 30% | 42% | 44% | 39% |
Don't know | 6% | 9% | 7% | 8% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 13% | 7% | 5% | 12% | 9% | 9% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 28% | 27% | 27% | 17% | 15% | 14% |
Within 12 weeks | 2% | 13% | 8% | 17% | 9% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% | 7% | 9% | 4% | 9% | 5% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 7% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 13% | 33% | 39% | 36% | 49% | 50% |
Don't know | 26% | 8% | 8% | 10% | 5% | 4% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 15% | 2% | 4% | 2% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 27% | 22% | 11% | 6% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 14% | 11% | 6% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 11% | 5% | 6% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 6% | 7% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 26% | 40% | 57% | 71% |
Don't know | 11% | 5% | 5% | 3% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 15% | 6% | 0% | 4% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 29% | 20% | 9% | 17% |
Within 12 weeks | 14% | 11% | 8% | 3% |
Within 24 weeks | 9% | 7% | 5% | 14% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 4% | 4% | 11% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 18% | 47% | 72% | 28% |
Don't know | 11% | 5% | 3% | 23% |