How much time should a woman have to obtain a legal abortion: The woman is married and does not want any more children (April 2024)
category | Total |
---|---|
Never | 36% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 11% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% |
Within 36 weeks | 5% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 15% |
Don’t know | 9% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 16% | 30% | 57% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 11% | 8% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 15% | 16% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 16% | 11% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 1% | 1% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 26% | 11% | 5% |
Don’t know | 8% | 23% | 6% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 11% | 24% | 13% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 8% | 20% | 8% |
Within 12 weeks | 16% | 12% | 16% |
Within 24 weeks | 20% | 12% | 17% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 8% | 9% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 31% | 17% | 28% |
Don’t know | 6% | 7% | 9% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 57% | 57% | 56% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 15% | 14% | 10% |
Within 12 weeks | 15% | 10% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 4% | 7% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 2% | 0% | 2% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 3% | 5% | 6% |
Don’t know | 3% | 7% | 6% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 12% | 29% | 56% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 9% | 15% | 11% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% | 14% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 20% | 8% | 7% |
Within 36 weeks | 8% | 4% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 33% | 10% | 5% |
Don’t know | 6% | 19% | 5% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 17% | 13% | 8% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 11% | 11% | 5% |
Within 12 weeks | 21% | 12% | 8% |
Within 24 weeks | 18% | 23% | 18% |
Within 36 weeks | 8% | 7% | 9% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 16% | 31% | 47% |
Don’t know | 9% | 4% | 5% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 39% | 51% | 71% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 9% | 15% | 7% |
Within 12 weeks | 20% | 14% | 10% |
Within 24 weeks | 13% | 7% | 4% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 1% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 10% | 6% | 3% |
Don’t know | 3% | 7% | 3% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 40% | 22% | 35% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 11% | 12% | 13% |
Within 12 weeks | 15% | 17% | 8% |
Within 24 weeks | 13% | 7% | 8% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 6% | 8% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 11% | 25% | 16% |
Don’t know | 7% | 11% | 11% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Never | 34% | 38% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 11% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 13% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% | 12% |
Within 36 weeks | 7% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 15% | 14% |
Don’t know | 10% | 8% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 33% | 35% | 46% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 14% | 9% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 14% | 14% | 11% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% | 11% | 11% |
Within 36 weeks | 4% | 5% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 15% | 16% | 9% |
Don’t know | 9% | 10% | 7% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 31% | 30% | 35% | 48% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 13% | 18% | 9% | 6% |
Within 12 weeks | 16% | 13% | 13% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 11% | 8% | 13% | 12% |
Within 36 weeks | 9% | 5% | 4% | 3% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 12% | 20% | 16% | 10% |
Don’t know | 8% | 6% | 11% | 9% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 47% | 37% | 35% | 31% | 38% | 35% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 21% | 12% | 10% | 7% | 12% | 12% |
Within 12 weeks | 7% | 13% | 14% | 16% | 14% | 9% |
Within 24 weeks | 4% | 8% | 9% | 13% | 12% | 18% |
Within 36 weeks | 6% | 6% | 2% | 6% | 4% | 6% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 4% | 14% | 16% | 22% | 11% | 14% |
Don’t know | 12% | 10% | 13% | 5% | 8% | 6% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 52% | 31% | 20% | 14% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 13% | 14% | 8% | 6% |
Within 12 weeks | 8% | 18% | 20% | 13% |
Within 24 weeks | 4% | 12% | 17% | 23% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 5% | 8% | 6% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 8% | 14% | 16% | 32% |
Don’t know | 10% | 7% | 12% | 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 | 53% | 38% | 5% | 19% |
Within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy | 15% | 10% | 6% | 14% |
Within 12 weeks | 9% | 17% | 15% | 12% |
Within 24 weeks | 4% | 10% | 25% | 15% |
Within 36 weeks | 3% | 6% | 8% | 1% |
At any time during the pregnancy | 7% | 13% | 36% | 4% |
Don’t know | 8% | 6% | 5% | 36% |