How much time should a woman have to obtain a legal abortion: The woman is married and does not want any more children (February 2024)
category | Total |
---|---|
Never | 38% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 13% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 14% |
Don't know | 8% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 17% | 36% | 59% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 12% | 8% | 14% |
Within 12 weeks | 18% | 8% | 9% |
Within 24 weeks | 15% | 12% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 3% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 24% | 18% | 4% |
Don't know | 7% | 14% | 6% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 9% | 28% | 15% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 9% | 12% | 13% |
Within 12 weeks | 25% | 19% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 18% | 10% | 16% |
Within 36 weeks | 12% | 6% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 23% | 19% | 26% |
Don't know | 4% | 6% | 9% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 50% | 59% | 62% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 19% | 11% | 14% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 13% | 6% |
Within 24 weeks | 3% | 1% | 6% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 4% | 1% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 1% | 7% | 3% |
Don't know | 6% | 4% | 8% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 14% | 25% | 62% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 14% | 15% | 11% |
Within 12 weeks | 15% | 14% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 16% | 11% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 8% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 27% | 13% | 5% |
Don't know | 8% | 15% | 5% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 17% | 16% | 9% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 15% | 14% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 17% | 19% | 9% |
Within 24 weeks | 21% | 19% | 10% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 5% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 14% | 18% | 47% |
Don't know | 7% | 9% | 8% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 48% | 59% | 73% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 10% | 12% | 10% |
Within 12 weeks | 15% | 15% | 3% |
Within 24 weeks | 8% | 5% | 1% |
Within 36 weeks | 2% | 3% | 1% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 12% | 3% | 3% |
Don't know | 5% | 3% | 8% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 45% | 24% | 33% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 12% | 20% | 10% |
Within 12 weeks | 14% | 12% | 9% |
Within 24 weeks | 9% | 6% | 11% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 7% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 11% | 19% | 17% |
Don't know | 5% | 12% | 16% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Never | 38% | 38% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 13% | 13% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 14% |
Within 24 weeks | 10% | 9% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 13% | 14% |
Don't know | 9% | 8% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 29% | 39% | 53% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 15% | 11% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 11% | 14% | 14% |
Within 24 weeks | 14% | 8% | 5% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% | 4% | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 16% | 15% | 5% |
Don't know | 10% | 8% | 6% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 33% | 34% | 35% | 48% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 16% | 9% | 15% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 13% | 15% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 15% | 9% | 9% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 7% | 4% | 4% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 16% | 19% | 13% | 7% |
Don't know | 7% | 9% | 9% | 8% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 49% | 41% | 40% | 38% | 34% | 34% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 7% | 13% | 13% | 11% | 15% | 10% |
Within 12 weeks | 0% | 11% | 12% | 8% | 15% | 24% |
Within 24 weeks | 1% | 8% | 7% | 9% | 12% | 12% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 3% | 5% | 5% | 6% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 12% | 13% | 13% | 21% | 13% | 13% |
Don't know | 22% | 11% | 10% | 9% | 5% | 4% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 54% | 29% | 26% | 14% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 12% | 17% | 13% | 7% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 20% | 11% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 11% | 11% | 17% |
Within 36 weeks | 2% | 5% | 8% | 8% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 8% | 11% | 23% | 33% |
Don't know | 10% | 8% | 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 | 52% | 39% | 12% | 30% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 13% | 13% | 12% | 17% |
Within 12 weeks | 9% | 16% | 15% | 10% |
Within 24 weeks | 6% | 9% | 16% | 13% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 4% | 9% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 7% | 12% | 31% | 8% |
Don't know | 9% | 8% | 4% | 21% |