Americans Want Stricter Limits on Abortion: CBS Poll

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A recent poll by CBS News shows most Americans want stricter limits on abortion, or they want abortion ended altogether.

Pollsters asked people if abortion should be generally available to those who want it, available but under stricter limits than it is now, or not permitted at all.

Overall, 31% said abortion needed stricter limits, and 24% said abortion should not be permitted at all.

In other words, 55% of Americans surveyed believe abortion ought to be either completely illegal or legal under fewer circumstances than it currently is.

Forty-two percent said they would not be able to support a candidate who doesn’t share their views on abortion.

Interestingly, the survey under-represented Republicans. Democrats who responded to the CBS survey outnumbered Republicans by about 37%. In light of that, it’s possible that the percentage of Americans who want abortion restricted or abolished actually is higher than these polling numbers reflect.

This is just another poll demonstrating that Americans don’t support abortion on demand.

Time and again we have seen surveys that show most Americans believe abortion ought to be completely illegal or legal only under certain circumstances. Arkansans in particular oppose abortion.

These numbers just go to show that slowly but surely we are winning the fight to protect innocent human life.

You can read the poll results and see the survey questions and responses here.

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This Arkansas Law Saved 500 Unborn Children Last Year

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A single law Arkansas passed in 2015 saved the lives of an estimated 508 unborn children last year.

Here’s how we know that.

In 2001 Family Council worked with former state Rep. Jim Magnus (R – Little Rock) to pass the Woman’s Right to Know Act.

At the time, the bill was a major step forward, because it required abortionists to offer women vital information before performing an abortion.

In 2015 we worked with Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R – Springdale) to pass a new and improved informed-consent law.

This new law requires abortionists to give women all the facts about abortion up front — including information about abortion’s risks, consequences, and alternatives.

Arkansas’ informed-consent law also requires doctors to give women 72 hours to weigh their options before having an abortion, thanks to improvements the legislature made to the law in 2019.

Last year, 3,471 women were given information about abortion under the state’s informed consent law, according to reports from the Arkansas Department of Health.

That means that as many as 3,471 women inquired about abortion in Arkansas last year.

However, there were only 2,963 abortions in the state.

Comparing those two numbers, we estimate that 508 women chose not to have abortions after receiving the information required by the state’s informed-consent law.

All told, we estimate the 2015 Woman’s Right to Know law has saved the lives of 1,759 unborn children.

That’s simply amazing!

Laws like this one are part of the reason that abortion in Arkansas has plummeted to a 43-year low.

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