March 6, 2024
Freddie Miller, Jonathan Morris
Just over a fifth of people who took part in a Government of Jersey survey think abortions should be permitted on the island for gender selection purposes.
The government is updating the island's 1997 terminations law and from its consultation on changes 597 responses were analysed.
Of those who responded 82% were women, 67% were aged 25 to 54 and 47% said they had personal experience of termination.
The First News
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Legal access to abortion without the need to state a reason is supported by 57 percent of the Polish public, a new poll has revealed.
The survey, conducted by the IPSOS pollster for the More in Common Poland social initiative, aimed at studying factors that polarise society, also showed that of those that support the general availability of abortion, 38 percent would like it to be possible up to the 12th week of pregnancy, and 19 percent up to the 24th week.
Continued: https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/majority-of-poles-support-legal-abortion---poll-43310
Mario Canseco / Glacier News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
For weeks, it seemed that the issue of abortion, which used to dominate the airwaves in political campaigns in the United States, would not be a feature of this year’s presidential election. Americans are more preoccupied with other matters, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and race relations, to ponder rules and regulations regarding pregnancy termination.
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In Canada, our reintroduction to this topic happened during the Conservative Party’s leadership race, after eventual winner Erin O’Toole was criticized for his “pro-choice” stance. The governing Liberal Party will not remotely consider changes to the status quo, especially after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to support abortion rights in the last federal campaign.
Three-in-ten or more Democrats and Republicans don’t agree with their party on abortion
June 18, 2020
By Jeff Diamant
When it comes to abortion, members of Congress are starkly divided by party. Almost all Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives stand with their party in support of abortion rights, while almost all Republicans reflect their party’s position against abortion rights.
Yet the partisan divide among Americans themselves is less stark, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey. As is true on many other political issues, sizable minorities of Republicans and Democrats say they do not agree with the dominant position on abortion of the party they identify with or lean toward. And within each partisan coalition, some groups are less likely than others to agree with their party on abortion.
Statistics Sierra Leone to start survey on safe abortion
By Mabinty M. Kamara
16 March 2020
Statistics Sierra Leone, in Partnership with the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), an independent research institution based in Kenya, is set to conduct a research on resources available to access safe abortion in Sierra Leone.
The research, according to Samuel Ansumana, Director of Communication and Information at Statistic Sierra Leone, falls under a four-year project “Challenging the Politics of Social Exclusion” (CPSE) project to be implemented in Sierra Leone.
Continued: https://www.politicosl.com/articles/statistics-sierra-leone-start-survey-safe-abortion
Abortion support is the highest it’s been in two decades as challenges mount
More Democrats than Republicans say the issue is important in determining their 2020 vote.
By Emily Guskin and Scott Clement
July 10
Support for legal abortion stands at its highest level in more than two decades according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, even as numerous states adopt restrictions that challenge the breadth of rights established by the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The Post-ABC poll finds a 60 percent majority who say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 55 percent in a 2013 Post-ABC poll, and tying the record high level of support from 1995. The latest survey finds 36 percent say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, also tying a record low.
Think abortion rights is a "divisive" issue? Only to the political class
Yes, a fundamentalist minority passionately opposes abortion, but most Americans want it to be legal and accessible
Amanda Marcotte
January 17, 2019
The ascendance of Brett Kavanaugh means that the Supreme Court now likely has the fifth vote necessary to overturn or gut Roe v. Wade, making it possible not just for the states but Congress to end legal abortion. The media narrative around this fight will likely, as it has for decades, portray abortion rights as a "divisive" issue that splits Americans right down the middle, suggesting that any overturn of Roe, however unsettling and unfortunate it may be, still reflects widespread popular sentiment.
This narrative would be wrong. In reality, opposition to abortion rights — like opposition to premarital sex, contraception or gay rights — is only a fetish for a minority of Americans involved in fundamentalist Christian subculture. While a fair number of Americans may express ambivalence about abortion, just as they might still feel shame about premarital sex or discomfort around LGBTQ people, ultimately they prefer a system that values sexual freedom and the right to privacy.
In the U.S. and Europe, women are about as likely as men to favor legal abortion
By Ariana Monique Salazar and Kelsey Jo Starr
December 14, 2018
Organizations that advocate for legal abortion often frame it as a women’s rights issue. But in many European countries and the United States, women do not differ significantly from men in their views about abortion, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data from 34 European nations and the U.S.
In Europe, regardless of the overall support for legal abortion, women and men in 27 of the 34 countries surveyed do not differ significantly in their views about whether abortion should be legal. For example, roughly three-quarters of women and men in Germany say this (76% and 77%, respectively). The same is true in countries with lower overall support for legal abortion, like Greece, where 45% of both adult men and women say abortion should be legal.
Half Of Reproductive-Age Women Want Easier Access To Abortion Pills, Study Finds
The survey shows many women want the two medications to be available over the counter or online. Nearly half want doctors to provide the pills in advance.
By Catherine Pearson, HuffPost US
Nov 15 2018
A new national survey released Thursday shows substantial support for greater access to medication abortion among women in America.
Currently, a woman who wants to take the abortion pill — actually a combination of two drugs — must go to a medical facility where she takes the first medicine, mifepristone, in front of a clinician, and the second, misoprostol, at home some hours or days later.
Continued: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/abortion-pill-access-women_us_5bec9ea8e4b09f4670066059
Abortion survey: 66% support women's right to choose
Tuesday 30 October 2018
By Regan Paranihi
New Zealand's first Gender Attitudes Survey shows that 66% of New Zealanders agree that a woman should have the right to choose whether or not she has an abortion while 14% disagreed.
A further 15% of New Zealanders were neutral and 5% didn't know.
Continued: https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/abortion-survey-66-support-womens-right-choose
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