Should Abortion Laws be More or Less Strict? (April 2021)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 33% |
Left as they are now | 22% |
Less strict | 33% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 11% | 28% | 55% |
Left as they are now | 14% | 27% | 29% |
Less strict | 63% | 26% | 9% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 13% | 19% | 7% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 6% | 16% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 8% | 28% | 10% |
Less strict | 74% | 45% | 66% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 12% | 12% | 13% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 53% | 47% | 59% |
Left as they are now | 31% | 23% | 30% |
Less strict | 11% | 16% | 6% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 5% | 14% | 5% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 8% | 19% | 57% |
Left as they are now | 11% | 26% | 28% |
Less strict | 72% | 32% | 8% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 8% | 22% | 7% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 13% | 5% | 9% |
Left as they are now | 19% | 9% | 8% |
Less strict | 55% | 80% | 77% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 13% | 6% | 6% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 27% | 54% | 72% |
Left as they are now | 41% | 29% | 21% |
Less strict | 22% | 7% | 4% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 9% | 10% | 3% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 36% | 21% | 33% |
Left as they are now | 22% | 22% | 23% |
Less strict | 35% | 37% | 28% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 6% | 21% | 16% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 35% | 32% |
Left as they are now | 25% | 20% |
Less strict | 30% | 36% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 10% | 12% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 23% | 36% | 38% |
Left as they are now | 21% | 22% | 27% |
Less strict | 43% | 33% | 20% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 13% | 8% | 15% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 34% | 23% | 38% | 37% |
Left as they are now | 14% | 20% | 25% | 28% |
Less strict | 45% | 43% | 26% | 24% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 6% | 15% | 11% | 11% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 42% | 35% | 32% | 33% | 31% | 33% |
Left as they are now | 31% | 22% | 19% | 30% | 22% | 21% |
Less strict | 14% | 24% | 37% | 27% | 40% | 42% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 13% | 19% | 11% | 10% | 7% | 4% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 50% | 30% | 21% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 23% | 28% | 18% | 18% |
Less strict | 15% | 31% | 52% | 65% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 12% | 12% | 9% | 8% |
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. |
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More strict | 56% | 35% | 11% | 22% |
Left as they are now | 18% | 29% | 16% | 29% |
Less strict | 11% | 27% | 70% | 22% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 15% | 10% | 3% | 28% |