Should Abortion Laws be More or Less Strict? (February 2022)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 23% |
Left as they are now | 23% |
Less strict | 43% |
Don't know/No opinion | 12% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 10% | 21% | 35% |
Left as they are now | 11% | 25% | 34% |
Less strict | 68% | 39% | 23% |
Don't know/No opinion | 10% | 14% | 9% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 5% | 10% | 12% |
Left as they are now | 5% | 14% | 12% |
Less strict | 80% | 66% | 65% |
Don't know/No opinion | 10% | 11% | 11% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 36% | 24% | 39% |
Left as they are now | 35% | 24% | 37% |
Less strict | 25% | 42% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 10% | 10% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 6% | 13% | 38% |
Left as they are now | 9% | 21% | 33% |
Less strict | 77% | 44% | 20% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 21% | 9% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 6% | 5% | 8% |
Left as they are now | 14% | 10% | 3% |
Less strict | 72% | 76% | 82% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 10% | 6% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 22% | 30% | 58% |
Left as they are now | 29% | 39% | 29% |
Less strict | 41% | 19% | 7% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 12% | 6% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 25% | 23% | 19% |
Left as they are now | 26% | 16% | 20% |
Less strict | 41% | 44% | 44% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 17% | 17% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 26% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 24% | 22% |
Less strict | 40% | 45% |
Don't know/No opinion | 10% | 13% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 21% | 21% | 30% |
Left as they are now | 19% | 24% | 26% |
Less strict | 49% | 42% | 30% |
Don't know/No opinion | 11% | 12% | 13% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 18% | 27% | 21% | 24% |
Left as they are now | 17% | 20% | 25% | 27% |
Less strict | 56% | 40% | 40% | 39% |
Don't know/No opinion | 10% | 13% | 14% | 9% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 9% | 23% | 24% | 21% | 24% | 22% |
Left as they are now | 20% | 24% | 21% | 27% | 23% | 22% |
Less strict | 41% | 36% | 41% | 41% | 46% | 53% |
Don't know/No opinion | 30% | 17% | 14% | 11% | 8% | 3% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 38% | 19% | 9% | 5% |
Left as they are now | 25% | 26% | 18% | 15% |
Less strict | 23% | 41% | 64% | 73% |
Don't know/No opinion | 14% | 14% | 9% | 6% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
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More strict | 42% | 22% | 4% | 15% |
Left as they are now | 27% | 26% | 15% | 15% |
Less strict | 18% | 41% | 76% | 34% |
Don't know/No opinion | 13% | 11% | 5% | 36% |