Abortion rights get growing support in U.S.: Poll
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(CBS) Support for abortion rights is rising in the U.S., a new poll shows.
The Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll showed that 36 percent of adults think women should have access to abortion in "all circumstances. That's up from 23 percent in 2009.
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The percentage of adults opposed to abortion under any circumstances fell from 21 percent in 2009 to 17 percent this year, according to a statement published on the Harris website.
"Despite the current trend of fiscal conservatism in the United States stemming from the economic downturn, Americans overall remain socially moderate on abortion rights," Jennifer Colamonico, senior vice president for healthcare research at Harris, said in the statement.
The poll - an online survey of nearly 2,400 adults conducted in early July - comes at a time when some states have been taking steps to restrict access to abortion. These include cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, a major provider of abortion services, and requiring women to have an ultrasound of the fetus before having an abortion.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has more on abortion.
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Makes sense to me! <cough>
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Better get that <cough> looked at, I would recommend a psychologist!
I don't need excuses!
by slappy_mcjohnson July 28, 2011 1:18 AM EDT
Oh, right. You've been thoroughly brainwashed.
I retract the question.
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It's lucky the Harry Potter series didn't come out 2,000 years ago, or you'd be claiming Dumbledore "God", Harry would be your "Jesus", and Lord Voldemort would be your "Devil".
Opinion stories written by sheep-buggering guys who wrote those stories decades and centuries after Jesus' death hold just as much validity for a "religion" as your "Good Book".
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Basics for liberal ideology!
Why don't you? Too much thinking required, I'm sure...
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Nothing wrong with homosexuality or abortion? Yep, a liberal alright.
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Wow. another of those who is SO hyper-ideological that if I don't agree with any of your points, you think I am the polar opposite. You have tunnel vision.
I am libertarian, Einstein. Any idea what that means? I actually want smaller government, and I want it the hell out of the private lives of law-abiding citizens.
And I want to watch ALL of you social conservatives get dragged preferably kicking and screaming into the 21st century, as there is not one damned thing you can do about it.
lib?er?tar?i?an (lbr-t?r-n)
n.
1. One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
2. One who believes in free will.
ib?er?al (lbr-l, lbrl)
1. A person with liberal ideas or opinions.
And I,m going to watch you liberalists get kicked back to 1929 thanks to social liberalism while there is something you can do about it!
But the dammed thing is, you refuse!
The problem is that people like you aren't usually ACTUAL fiscal conservatives - you like welfare, as long as it's for private companies, right??
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Nothing wrong with homosexuality or abortion? Yep, a liberal alright.
You probably also think America's financial crisis is just bad luck or the fault of Bush!
You probably also think that the heat, storms, flooding , fires , drought, etc, are just climate change!
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Oh, I am a social moderate, for sure. Extreme fiscal conservative, on the level of Ron Paul.
I believe that Bible-thumping social conservatives like yourself ruined what had been our only fiscally-conservative major party and turned it into the "let's not think" God Party.
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Ah, you're a pantheist. How do you keep track of all those thousands of "gods"? Oh yes, you're an adult!
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That would be a pantheon you're referring to - like the Judeo Christian multi-god setup of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (whatever that is...)
You have an odd definition of pantheism. I simply believe that all which exists is part of "god", collectively.
What's your excuse for sticking with a fairy tale you should have grown out of???
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You weren't created? Oh, so you just happened!
You're not an atheist? Oh, well which god do you believe in then?
The god who brought your momma a box with you in it?
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I'm a pantheist.
And no, I wasn't created. I was born through a well-known biological process.
Again, I don't feel the need to believe in your "God" when as an adult I also no longer believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, nor the Tooth Fairy. What's your excuse?
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Coincides with the rising incidence and support for homosexuality, pedophilia, rape, drug use, child abuse, child murder, etc,etc.
Isn't the wonderful world of liberalism great?
You compare apples to oranges.
I am a libertarian, and actually stand for the FREEDOMS and LIBERTIES you would deny those who do not break the law.
You sound like a neo-con - you claim to want a smaller government, yet want to deny personal freedoms of others.
You probably also think America's financial crisis is just bad luck or the fault of Bush!
You probably also think that the heat, storms, flooding , fires , drought, etc, are just climate change!