Polling on Abortion

For John, BLUF:  Abortion is a topic that causes unease in some politicians, perhaps because they think the pro-abortion crowd is powerful, but the pro-life crowd is a small, remote, corner of a diminishing Chrisendom.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Poll:  Two-Thirds of Americans Want Candidate Who Supports ‘Significant Restrictions’ on Abortion

From The Washington Free Beacon, Reporter Yoichiro Kakutani, 22 January 2020.

Here is the lede plus two:

Democratic presidential candidates have eagerly embraced radical pro-abortion stances, but two-thirds of Americans want to vote for political candidates who favor "significant restrictions" on abortion, according to a recent poll.

The annual Marist poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus showed that 55 percent of Americans identify as pro-choice.  However, 70 percent of the country, including nearly half of self-described pro-choice respondents, oppose all abortions or believe they should be permitted only during the first 12 weeks, in medical emergencies, or in cases of rape or incest.

The data do not bode well for the leading Democratic presidential candidates, all of whom espouse ambitious pro-abortion policy platforms.  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) wants to install a federal statutory right that "parallels the constitutional right in Roe v. Wade" and prohibit states from restricting abortion in later months of pregnancy.  Former vice president Joe Biden also capitulated to a progressive outcry last year and committed himself to oppose the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding for abortion through Medicaid.

While President Trump will be the first President to participate in the yearly March for Life, I am doubtful this will be a major factor in this years elections.

I am bemused by the approach of the abortion advocates, who seem to think that women, who have been procuring abortions for millennia, need abortions to be available at every opportunity and at no cost, neither in money nor emotion.  I find this to be infantilizing of women.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff