Abortion should be possible if the woman's own health is seriously endangered (October 2021)
category | Total |
---|---|
Should be possible | 81% |
Should not be possible | 10% |
Don’t know | 8% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 90% | 77% | 76% |
Should not be possible | 5% | 12% | 14% |
Don’t know | 5% | 10% | 10% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 98% | 87% | 88% |
Should not be possible | 0% | 7% | 6% |
Don’t know | 2% | 6% | 6% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 71% | 86% | 75% |
Should not be possible | 18% | 8% | 14% |
Don’t know | 11% | 7% | 11% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 98% | 79% | 73% |
Should not be possible | 2% | 10% | 16% |
Don’t know | 1% | 11% | 11% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 95% | 98% | 99% |
Should not be possible | 4% | 1% | 1% |
Don’t know | 1% | 0% | 0% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 87% | 82% | 60% |
Should not be possible | 7% | 8% | 26% |
Don’t know | 6% | 10% | 13% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 83% | 81% | 78% |
Should not be possible | 10% | 9% | 10% |
Don’t know | 7% | 9% | 12% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Should be possible | 81% | 82% |
Should not be possible | 12% | 9% |
Don’t know | 8% | 9% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 83% | 82% | 78% |
Should not be possible | 11% | 10% | 10% |
Don’t know | 6% | 8% | 12% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 82% | 78% | 82% | 83% |
Should not be possible | 9% | 14% | 9% | 10% |
Don’t know | 9% | 8% | 9% | 7% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 93% | 77% | 78% | 88% | 83% | 83% |
Should not be possible | 1% | 12% | 9% | 5% | 11% | 13% |
Don’t know | 6% | 10% | 12% | 7% | 5% | 5% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Should be possible | 69% | 86% | 96% | 91% |
Should not be possible | 18% | 6% | 1% | 8% |
Don’t know | 13% | 8% | 2% | 1% |
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 | 63% | 85% | 94% | 88% |
Should not be possible | 20% | 9% | 5% | 1% |
Don’t know | 17% | 6% | 2% | 11% |