How much time should a woman have to obtain a legal abortion: The woman became pregnant as a result of rape (February 2023)
category | Total |
---|---|
Never | 11% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 24% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 9% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 28% |
Don’t know | 10% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 2% | 11% | 19% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 14% | 13% | 38% |
Within 12 weeks | 9% | 19% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 15% | 7% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 7% | 5% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 45% | 26% | 12% |
Don’t know | 7% | 19% | 8% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 0% | 7% | 1% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 4% | 13% | 16% |
Within 12 weeks | 7% | 15% | 7% |
Within 24 weeks | 17% | 17% | 14% |
Within 36 weeks | 10% | 9% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 54% | 36% | 47% |
Don’t know | 8% | 3% | 9% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 21% | 16% | 20% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 34% | 38% | 39% |
Within 12 weeks | 19% | 14% | 15% |
Within 24 weeks | 7% | 2% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 0% | 6% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 14% | 17% | 10% |
Don’t know | 6% | 7% | 9% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 1% | 8% | 20% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 10% | 23% | 34% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 12% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 14% | 9% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 8% | 5% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 51% | 26% | 12% |
Don’t know | 5% | 17% | 9% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 0% | 2% | 2% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 7% | 11% | 10% |
Within 12 weeks | 20% | 7% | 10% |
Within 24 weeks | 18% | 14% | 11% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 11% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 42% | 53% | 56% |
Don’t know | 4% | 3% | 7% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 11% | 16% | 29% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 24% | 37% | 37% |
Within 12 weeks | 17% | 19% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 7% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 1% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 23% | 12% | 6% |
Don’t know | 10% | 8% | 8% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 13% | 7% | 10% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 25% | 23% | 21% |
Within 12 weeks | 16% | 12% | 8% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 11% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 3% | 6% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 26% | 28% | 31% |
Don’t know | 6% | 17% | 18% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Never | 10% | 11% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 25% | 22% |
Within 12 weeks | 12% | 15% |
Within 24 weeks | 8% | 11% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 6% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 27% | 28% |
Don’t know | 13% | 7% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 8% | 10% | 16% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 25% | 21% | 28% |
Within 12 weeks | 12% | 14% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 11% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 7% | 4% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 29% | 30% | 21% |
Don’t know | 10% | 10% | 12% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 7% | 10% | 13% | 10% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 19% | 21% | 21% | 33% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% | 13% | 14% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 13% | 10% | 10% | 6% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 5% | 4% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 30% | 31% | 26% | 26% |
Don’t know | 12% | 9% | 13% | 6% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 23% | 9% | 9% | 12% | 10% | 13% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 29% | 29% | 23% | 33% | 17% | 16% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 11% | 13% | 14% | 15% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 0% | 6% | 10% | 7% | 12% | 14% |
Within 36 weeks | 0% | 3% | 9% | 1% | 7% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 28% | 21% | 28% | 26% | 32% | 35% |
Don’t know | 9% | 20% | 8% | 7% | 7% | 4% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 20% | 6% | 3% | 2% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 34% | 23% | 12% | 9% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 18% | 22% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 9% | 18% | 10% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 5% | 9% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 14% | 28% | 28% | 58% |
Don’t know | 13% | 10% | 8% | 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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 19% | 11% | 1% | 1% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 36% | 24% | 7% | 19% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 17% | 10% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 10% | 13% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 2% | 5% | 7% | 7% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 14% | 23% | 57% | 18% |
Don’t know | 11% | 8% | 4% | 33% |