Abortion should be possible if the woman is married and does not want any more children (October 2021)
category | Total |
---|---|
Should be possible | 38% |
Should not be possible | 51% |
Don’t know | 11% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 69% | 40% | 12% |
Should not be possible | 17% | 47% | 81% |
Don’t know | 14% | 13% | 7% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 78% | 50% | 74% |
Should not be possible | 12% | 22% | 17% |
Don’t know | 9% | 28% | 9% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 7% | 22% | 10% |
Should not be possible | 87% | 65% | 83% |
Don’t know | 5% | 13% | 7% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 78% | 39% | 13% |
Should not be possible | 14% | 40% | 79% |
Don’t know | 7% | 20% | 9% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 58% | 79% | 93% |
Should not be possible | 25% | 15% | 4% |
Don’t know | 17% | 5% | 2% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 23% | 14% | 8% |
Should not be possible | 69% | 75% | 85% |
Don’t know | 8% | 11% | 7% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 35% | 50% | 42% |
Should not be possible | 57% | 38% | 42% |
Don’t know | 9% | 11% | 15% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Should be possible | 35% | 40% |
Should not be possible | 53% | 50% |
Don’t know | 12% | 10% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 52% | 36% | 23% |
Should not be possible | 40% | 52% | 65% |
Don’t know | 8% | 12% | 13% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 58% | 43% | 33% | 23% |
Should not be possible | 32% | 46% | 55% | 67% |
Don’t know | 10% | 11% | 12% | 10% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 46% | 30% | 35% | 39% | 45% | 41% |
Should not be possible | 37% | 55% | 49% | 57% | 48% | 52% |
Don’t know | 17% | 15% | 16% | 3% | 7% | 8% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 17% | 36% | 59% | 67% |
Should not be possible | 71% | 50% | 29% | 27% |
Don’t know | 12% | 13% | 11% | 5% |
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 13% | 31% | 74% | 43% |
Should not be possible | 74% | 58% | 21% | 32% |
Don’t know | 13% | 11% | 5% | 24% |