59% of Americans Say Having an Abortion is Wrong

[LisaC]

We are taking a step in the right direction:

A new poll conducted by Thomson Reuters for NPR, coming after a Gallup survey showing Americans oppose all or most abortions, finds a majority of Americans say having an abortion is wrong.

NPR asked “do you personally believe having an abortion is wrong” and 59.3 percent of Americans polled said yes compared with just 40.7 percent who said no. The youngest age category of those polled, under 35, gave the most pro-life responses with 65.5 percent saying that having an abortion is wrong.

The results compare with a new Gallup survey released earlier this week showing 51 percent of Americans say abortion is “morally wrong,” compared with just 39 percent who say abortion is morally acceptable.

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/03/npr-poll-59-of-americans-say-having-an-abortion-is-wrong/

 

[Guard Dad]

But I bet a majority will still say they are pro-choice. That's the political influence on them.

 

[J-man]

I'm not sure whether we should be happy or embarrassed at that number. :dunno

 

[lotstodo]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

 

[Guard Dad]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

 

[ShoeDiva]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

 

[Guard Dad]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

 

[J-man]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Wish others would stop imposing their views on me when it comes to gun control.

 

[ShoeDiva]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

 

[Guard Dad]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

 

[lotstodo]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

 

[stradial]

I would not have a problem with making abortion illegal, however that genie is out of the bottle and will never be put back again.
So I think the best thing is come up with a reasonable solution that makes sense.
I do think that having an abortion should be harder than buying a car or buying an antihistamine from behind the counter.

In other words, not illegal, but not a free for all.

 

[Guard Dad]

I would not have a problem with making abortion illegal, however that genie is out of the bottle and will never be put back again.
So I think the best thing is come up with a reasonable solution that makes sense.
I do think that having an abortion should be harder than buying a car or buying an antihistamine from behind the counter.

In other words, not illegal, but not a free for all.

I agree that legal abortion is here to stay. But I hope we find ways to make it more difficult, and also ways to encourage people to not have them.

 

[stradial]

I would not have a problem with making abortion illegal, however that genie is out of the bottle and will never be put back again.
So I think the best thing is come up with a reasonable solution that makes sense.
I do think that having an abortion should be harder than buying a car or buying an antihistamine from behind the counter.

In other words, not illegal, but not a free for all.

I agree that legal abortion is here to stay. But I hope we find ways to make it more difficult, and also ways to encourage people to not have them.

Agreed.

 

[J-man]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

When the kid is kicking and screaming I think we can safely assume life has began. Or better yet, when the baby looks up at the parents and says, "I was born gay."

Hmmmm, I think I have a s/o.

 

[Guard Dad]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

I dunno...

Religious people might be more passionate about the issue, but I think there's a lot of non-religious people who oppose abortion because they feel the inborn child is innocent life

We had this very discussion on another forum awhile back. very few people on there are religious, yet a LOT of men opposed abortion. Most of them were fathers.

 

[ShoeDiva]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

I dunno...

Religious people might be more passionate about the issue, but I think there's a lot of non-religious people who oppose abortion because they feel the inborn child is innocent life

We had this very discussion on another forum awhile back. very few people on there are religious, yet a LOT of men opposed abortion. Most of them were fathers.

I can believe that.

 

[Guard Dad]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

I dunno...

Religious people might be more passionate about the issue, but I think there's a lot of non-religious people who oppose abortion because they feel the inborn child is innocent life

We had this very discussion on another forum awhile back. very few people on there are religious, yet a LOT of men opposed abortion. Most of them were fathers.

I can believe that.

As a father, I can too. Kiddos change us. Sure changed me!

 

[ShoeDiva]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

I dunno...

Religious people might be more passionate about the issue, but I think there's a lot of non-religious people who oppose abortion because they feel the inborn child is innocent life

We had this very discussion on another forum awhile back. very few people on there are religious, yet a LOT of men opposed abortion. Most of them were fathers.

I can believe that.

As a father, I can too. Kiddos change us. Sure changed me!

 

[LisaC]

Curiously enough though, only 25% of Americans polled in 2009 believed that it should be completely illegal across the board. While many people say that it would be wrong for they themselves to have an abortion, hence the answer to the "moral" question, far fewer would completely restrict the ability for others to have an abortion.

This is what I was getting at in my post above. There seems to be a disconnect between their own personal views and how that should affect access to abortion.

I do not see it as a disconnect, more of not imposing your views and beliefs on others. There is a difference.

Kind of like believing killing or stealing is wrong but not wanting to impose your belief on others? Oh wait, killing and stealing is against the law.

Not the same and you know it. You said it was a disconnect, I believe it is not imposing my religious moral beliefs on others. I will tell them out right what I believe, but that does not make it right to them. Their belief system could be different and that is between them and God.

Believing abortion is wrong does not have to be a religious belief. I know several atheists who oppose abortion.

It doesn't have to be, but you must admit that it usually is. The truth is that nobody knows when human "life" begins, but the only ones who teach that it begins at conception are the evangelicals. There are two questions in the abortion controversy, one being what one defines as life and the other when that life begins. It is a religious, ethical, and scientific question to which there is no single correct answer. Apart from the religious questions, well meaning scientists and medical ethicists differ in their opinions of what defines "human life" and when that life begins.

When the kid is kicking and screaming I think we can safely assume life has began. Or better yet, when the baby looks up at the parents and says, "I was born gay."

Hmmmm, I think I have a s/o.

How about when a heart beat is detected? Gay or not, these babies should have a right to live.