Should abortion laws be more or less strict (February 2023)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 22% |
Left as they are now | 21% |
Less strict | 47% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 10% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 12% | 20% | 32% |
Left as they are now | 5% | 15% | 41% |
Less strict | 79% | 40% | 20% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 4% | 25% | 7% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 1% | 16% | 12% |
Left as they are now | 3% | 6% | 6% |
Less strict | 93% | 74% | 77% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 3% | 4% | 5% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 23% | 27% | 38% |
Left as they are now | 52% | 33% | 39% |
Less strict | 18% | 31% | 16% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 9% | 7% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 6% | 22% | 32% |
Left as they are now | 3% | 14% | 40% |
Less strict | 84% | 51% | 19% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 13% | 10% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 9% | 3% | 8% |
Left as they are now | 4% | 3% | 2% |
Less strict | 75% | 91% | 81% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 12% | 2% | 8% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 13% | 30% | 46% |
Left as they are now | 33% | 38% | 46% |
Less strict | 39% | 21% | 3% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 15% | 11% | 5% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 23% | 23% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 26% | 8% | 17% |
Less strict | 44% | 58% | 48% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 11% | 15% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 23% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 23% | 20% |
Less strict | 42% | 52% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 11% | 9% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 27% | 16% | 27% |
Left as they are now | 14% | 23% | 29% |
Less strict | 50% | 52% | 31% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 10% | 9% | 13% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 25% | 21% | 21% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 10% | 18% | 21% | 34% |
Less strict | 51% | 48% | 49% | 42% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 13% | 13% | 9% | 5% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 22% | 26% | 16% | 30% | 21% | 16% |
Left as they are now | 38% | 16% | 22% | 22% | 24% | 19% |
Less strict | 32% | 40% | 55% | 39% | 49% | 57% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 9% | 18% | 7% | 9% | 5% | 8% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 36% | 18% | 7% | 6% |
Left as they are now | 29% | 20% | 19% | 7% |
Less strict | 29% | 49% | 60% | 78% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 6% | 14% | 14% | 9% |
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 | 39% | 22% | 2% | 9% |
Left as they are now | 26% | 27% | 6% | 16% |
Less strict | 26% | 44% | 84% | 37% |
Don’t know/No opinion | 9% | 7% | 7% | 38% |