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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Polling Data Shows Americans Oppose Roe v. Wade Decision That Allows Virtually Unlimited Abortions

Americans oppose what Roe v. Wade did in allowing almost unlimited abortions, even if they don’t know what Roe did.


By Steven Ertelt
Life News


Mainstream media outlets are touting new polls claiming to show that Americans support Roe v Wade and want a Supreme Court Justice to replace retiring pro-abortion Justice Anthony Kennedy who also supports abortion.

However most of the polling data supplied simply asks Americans what they think about the Roe v Wade decision. The polling questions do not provide any details about what the infamous Roe decision actually did. As a result, the polling really has little worth or value because Americans for the most part don’t really understand the pervasive nature of Roe v Wade and how it allowed virtually unlimited abortions.

Few Americans have a comprehensive understanding of the Supreme Court jurisprudence on abortion and don’t realize that Roe is combined with a companion case Doe v. Bolton that has a health exception big enough to drive a Mack truck through. 


When combined, the cases essentially prohibit states from putting forward any limits or bans on abortions before viability — and most abortions are done pre-viability. And even after viability, the health exception allows virtually unlimited abortions because almost any reason for an abortion can be justified under the exception.

Thus, in  the new poll, the respondent is not told that the decision (along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton) essentially established abortion throughout all nine months. That includes killing fully mature, perfectly healthy babies if a woman so desires.

Previous polling data makes it clear that Americans don’t fully understand the extensiveness of Roe v Wade and it’s pro-abortion character.

Gallup trends indicate that the increase in public uncertainty about overturning Roe v. Wade is largely the result of a growing percentage of young adults aged 18 to 29 expressing no opinion. 

This suggests that the generation born entirely after Roe became law has had less exposure to information about the decision than those who lived through the original decision, or were at least old enough to witness some of the major abortion debates during the 1980s and ’90s, such as those involving President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987 and reaction to the high court’s Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey decision in 1992.

The same kind of misinformation about Roe and abortion was seen in a recent Pew poll, where two-thirds of young Americans didn’t even know Roe v. Wade had to do with abortion.



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