Democrats' support for abortion grows, low election priority: Reuters/Ipsos poll

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




JULY 30, 2018 / 3:18 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Maria Caspani

(Reuters) - U.S. Democrats' support for abortion rights grew in the last two years, but for most it will be a low priority in the November mid-term election compared with issues such as healthcare and the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.

The poll found that 68 percent of Democrats said in July that abortion should be legal, up from 60 percent in a similar poll conducted in June 2016.

But just 9 percent of registered Democratic voters cited abortion as the most important issue to determine how they will vote in November, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll gauging Americans’ top priorities in the midterm elections.

Sixteen percent said their top priority was healthcare and 12 percent said it was the economy.




Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-abortion/democrats-support-for-abortion-grows-low-election-priority-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1KK297

[lagomorph777]

1. So many issues to choose from; I don't care which gets you to the polls.

As long as you get to the polls!

[get the red out]

2. All those issues lead

to voting Dem!

[Iliyah]

3. A lot of tv commericals are drug related.

Pills for every ailment in the human body. Same with polls. Polls this and polls that.

[Dave Starsky]

4. "Support for abortion"? NO ONE supports abortion.

That headline is total bullshit.

[CTyankee]

5. I don't agree. If you support a woman's right to choose you have to be willing to support

abortion as her right. Whether or not you would make that choice depends on the individual woman.

[Dave Starsky]

6. I agree 100% with you.

You said it better than I could. But I don't think that women usually choose abortion as their primary method of birth control, do you?

[CTyankee]

7. no, I don't. But I worked for both the ACLU and Planned Parenthood

PP was vehement in educating women on the choices they had for contraception and giving them accurate medical information that was being distorted (or actual lies) by the anti-choicers.

[Dave Starsky]

8. Then we agree on this.

Democrats are pro-choice, not "pro-abortion". And that's the reason the headline I referred to originally is bullshit.

[CTyankee]

9. I support the term "abortion rights" not just abortion alone. I've been in this fight for too goddam

long. It is "abortion rights." We fought hard for it.