How much time should a woman have to obtain a legal abortion: The woman’s health is seriously endangered (August 2022)
category | Total |
---|---|
Never | 5% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 17% |
Within 12 weeks | 9% |
Within 24 weeks | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 47% |
Don't know | 11% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 2% | 8% | 7% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 8% | 16% | 24% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 8% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 5% | 9% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 3% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 66% | 35% | 35% |
Don't know | 7% | 25% | 11% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 1% | 7% | 1% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 4% | 8% | 9% |
Within 12 weeks | 3% | 13% | 7% |
Within 24 weeks | 9% | 5% | 5% |
Within 36 weeks | 2% | 4% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 78% | 51% | 67% |
Don't know | 3% | 13% | 7% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 2% | 12% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 22% | 22% | 27% |
Within 12 weeks | 16% | 5% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 6% | 10% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 4% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 33% | 56% | 25% |
Don't know | 12% | 7% | 13% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 1% | 3% | 10% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 8% | 17% | 22% |
Within 12 weeks | 5% | 10% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 7% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 3% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 72% | 43% | 33% |
Don't know | 3% | 18% | 12% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 2% | 1% | 1% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 7% | 10% | 7% |
Within 12 weeks | 5% | 6% | 3% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 3% | 10% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 6% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 70% | 72% | 75% |
Don't know | 7% | 2% | 2% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 4% | 10% | 14% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 10% | 23% | 30% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 12% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 9% | 9% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 3% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 53% | 29% | 22% |
Don't know | 12% | 14% | 11% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 6% | 5% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 18% | 13% | 16% |
Within 12 weeks | 10% | 11% | 6% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 2% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 4% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 45% | 53% | 51% |
Don't know | 10% | 10% | 15% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 6% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 18% | 16% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 10% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 48% | 47% |
Don't know | 12% | 10% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 7% | 4% | 8% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 14% | 17% | 20% |
Within 12 weeks | 10% | 9% | 7% |
Within 24 weeks | 7% | 6% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 3% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 48% | 49% | 42% |
Don't know | 9% | 12% | 11% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 8% | 5% | 4% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 9% | 12% | 18% | 24% |
Within 12 weeks | 5% | 9% | 10% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 12% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
Within 36 weeks | 2% | 4% | 4% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 53% | 49% | 46% | 44% |
Don't know | 14% | 11% | 12% | 8% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 2% | 7% | 3% | 11% | 5% | 3% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 20% | 24% | 14% | 21% | 15% | 5% |
Within 12 weeks | 5% | 9% | 8% | 11% | 10% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% | 6% | 8% | 7% | 5% | 12% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 1% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 8% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 43% | 36% | 51% | 40% | 53% | 56% |
Don't know | 15% | 16% | 13% | 8% | 8% | 6% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 11% | 4% | 1% | 0% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 23% | 19% | 12% | 4% |
Within 12 weeks | 10% | 11% | 11% | 4% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 10% | 6% | 5% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 3% | 4% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 32% | 41% | 58% | 78% |
Don't know | 15% | 11% | 9% | 6% |
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 | 12% | 4% | 1% | 4% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 26% | 19% | 4% | 13% |
Within 12 weeks | 10% | 11% | 4% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 7% | 8% | 6% | 3% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 3% | 3% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 25% | 45% | 77% | 37% |
Don't know | 17% | 9% | 4% | 29% |