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OCR Page 1 of 86Public Still Backs Abortion, but Wants Limits, Poll Says
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January 16, 1998
Public Still Backs Abortion, but Wants Limits,
Poll Says
Results of The New York Times/CBS News Poll
Abortion, 25 Years After Roe V. Wade
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Join a discussion on the 25th Anniversary of Roe V. Wade
By CAREY GOLDBERG with JANET ELDER
T
wenty-five years and nearly 30 million abortions after the Supreme Court's
landmark Roe V. Wade decision, the American public still largely supports
legalized abortion but says it should be harder to get and less readily chosen, the
latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
At base, the country remains irreconcilably riven over what many
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consider the most divisive American issue since slavery, with half
ABORTION:
25 Years After
the population considering abortion murder, the poll found.
Roe V. Wade
Despite a quarter-century of lobbying, debating and protesting by
the camps that call themselves "pro-choice" and "pro-life," that schism has
remained virtually unaltered.
But beneath that basic divide, public opinion has shifted notably away from
general acceptance of legal abortion and toward an evolving center of gravity: a
more nuanced, conditional acceptance that some call a "permit but discourage"
model.
Almost half of those polled said it was too easy to get an abortion these days.
Public support for legal abortion plummets from 61 percent if it is performed in
the first three months of a woman's pregnancy to only 15 percent in the second
three months. And a few reasons sometimes given for choosing abortion have
become less persuasive.
In 1989, for example, when people were asked whether a pregnant woman
should be able to get a legal abortion if her pregnancy would force her to
interrupt her career, 37 percent said yes and 56 percent said no; in 1998, only 25
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