By Louisiana Right to Life New Orleans – Today, The Advocate published a story on a poll commissioned by Faucheux Strategies that asked Louisiana citizens a question about abortion that was inaccurate. The Advocate’s poll question states that “Louisiana law bans all abortions, except when the life of the mother is in danger.” This is simply not correct. …
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David N. O’Steen, Ph.D., former executive director of National Right to Life: “We asked this question [in a poll created by National Right to Life]. Would you support or oppose allowing abortion only under these four circumstances: when it’s necessary to save the life of the mother, when there’s a medical emergency posing serious risk …
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By Dave Andrusko By now, after five decades, pro-lifers appreciate how abortion polls can be so constructed that a pro-abortion conclusion is baked in. That starts with asking the wrong questions about the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the odious 1973 Roe v. Wade and the 1992 Planned …
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By Dave Andrusko Yesterday, we took a first stab at interpreting two sets of abortion numbers from Gallup. The first results were about mifepristone [“Most Americans Favor Availability of Abortion Pill”] and the second about under what circumstance respondents believed abortion should be legal [“Broader Support for Abortion Rights Continues Post-Dobbs”]. We covered mifepristone at some …
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By Dave Andrusko When you have almost the entirety of the media on your side—enthusiastically so, I might add—not surprisingly support for your position as measured by public opinion polls must be examined very carefully. Gallup offered two examples today: “Most Americans Favor Availability of Abortion Pill” and “Broader Support for Abortion Rights Continues Post-Dobbs.” …
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More Americans consider themselves to be conservative on social issues than at any point in the past decade By Dave Andrusko Gallup reports on the results of a fascinating study this morning, offering insight into the growing number of Americans who say they are conservative on social issues, including abortion. “The results are based on Gallup’s annual …
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By Kevin Tober A brand new poll conducted by NPR/PBS Tuesday shows a “significant majority of Americans say they believe President Biden’s mental fitness is a real concern they have about his ability to be president,” according to NPR’s writeup of the poll’s findings. Despite this, PBS NewsHour ignored their own poll during their Tuesday evening broadcast. It was …
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Data Show Majority of Pro-Choice and Prop 3 Voters Support Parental Consent, Safety Standards By Michigan Catholic Conference (Lansing, Mich.) — The legislative majority and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would be going against the will of Michigan voters — and for the Governor, her own stated position — if legislation advances to remove the requirement that parents give …
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New Orleans, Louisiana –-On Monday, Couvillion Pollster released a poll commissioned by pro-abortion groups indicating that the majority of Louisiana citizens are pro-abortion. Their results stand in contrast to internal polling Louisiana Right to Life has conducted for years, showing that 63% of the state is pro-life. In fact, in 2019, polling in Louisiana showed …
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By David N. O’Steen, Ph.D. Two recent polls, one statewide and the other national, contain both encouraging news and a strong dose of reality for all of us trying to save the lives of unborn children. The first, conducted statewide in Oklahoma by WPA Intelligence, February 14 -16, probed for what reasons Oklahomans thought abortion should be …
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By Dave Andrusko On Thursday, we wrote about how “New poll continues stretch of bad numbers for President Biden.” His job approval rating was a dismal 41% while Vice President Kamala Harris’s was even bleaker– 36%–according to the Monmouth University survey. His numbers were “stagnating.” But if 41% was just five points higher than the lowest figure …
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By Dave Andrusko With the prospect of being 82 years old if he were to run again and win, it probably comes as no surprise that a “majority of voters” [68%] and even a “plurality of Democrats” [48%] “say Biden is too old to run again.” Yahoo News’s Andrew Romano writes The survey of 1,516 U.S. adults, …
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