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(41,505 posts) Mon Jan 21, 2013, 09:11 PM Jan 2013

NBC/WSJ poll: Majority, for first time, wants abortion to be legal [View all]

Source: Mark Murray, NBC News Senior Political Editor

As the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision takes place on Tuesday, a majority of Americans – for the first time – believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

What’s more, seven in 10 respondents oppose Roe v. Wade from being overturned, which is the highest percentage on this question since 1989.

“These are profound changes,” says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart and his colleagues.

McInturff adds that the abortion-related events and rhetoric over the past year – which included controversial remarks on abortion and rape by two Republican Senate candidates, as well as a highly charged debate over contraception – helped shaped these changing poll numbers.

Read more: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/21/16626932-nbcwsj-poll-majority-for-first-time-wants-abortion-to-be-legal

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NBC/WSJ poll: Majority, for first time, wants abortion to be legal [View all] cal04 Jan 2013 OP

The times, they are a changin' Adenoid_Hynkel Jan 2013 #1

Good One!!! Like this! calimary Jan 2013 #7

The irony is that he wouldn't even fit into the GOP mold today. Ilsa Jan 2013 #16

Try selling that to the assholes in the Mississippi legislature. Left Coast2020 Jan 2013 #21

I guess they stopped polling only male Kansas Christians. nt valerief Jan 2013 #2

Unpacking public opinion on this issue is complicated bluestateguy Jan 2013 #3

Imagine being a Republican... Old and In the Way Jan 2013 #4

The square curmudgeon party is a more apt descriptor Politicub Jan 2013 #9

Bring in Gerry Mander to fix it all! AllyCat Jan 2013 #29

"For the first time?" Another "reporter" who sent is a cereal box top for his degree, I see. PSPS Jan 2013 #5

Yeah, no kidding. As far as I can remember, it's ALWAYS been that way. calimary Jan 2013 #6

that was my thought as well. "first time" indeed! where has this twit been for years? niyad Jan 2013 #8

My thoughts exactly! WinstonSmith4740 Jan 2013 #17

I think that the author of that piece was parsing their words carefully. davepdx Jan 2013 #22

I don't really get the need for seperate second and third questions, though... Blue_Tires Jan 2013 #26

More and more people are no longer afraid to speak . . . another_liberal Jan 2013 #10

Hallelujah. It's about freaking time. Chorophyll Jan 2013 #11

Progress has always been slow iandhr Jan 2013 #12

Yup, and often it's one-step-forward, two-steps back. Chorophyll Jan 2013 #24

If you take one step forward and two steps back, you've just lost ground FiveGoodMen Jan 2013 #28

Since when we we care about polls about rights confirmed by settled law? If it's a right, then 24601 Jan 2013 #13

It shouldn't be too surprising. CranialRectaLoopback Jan 2013 #14

The Gerrymandered Statehouses and House Stand in the Way bucolic_frolic Jan 2013 #15

Good. krispos42 Jan 2013 #18

The report is propaganda. ReRe Jan 2013 #19

Instead of huffing fire leftynyc Jan 2013 #23

I was tired and in a foul mood... ReRe Jan 2013 #27

Did they get that "for the first time" out of a cracked fortune cookie or something? proReality Jan 2013 #20

This is hard to believe ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2013 #25