Poll: Majority support Roe vs. Wade, and access to legal abortions in most cases

In news guaranteed to tick off the Religious Right, a poll conducted by an NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll, 54% of respondents said that they support abortion in any/most cases, including rape.  44% of respondents said they thought abortion should be illegal.   70% of respondents said that they support Roe vs. Wade.  The issue was a hot topic in the 2012 campaign, but clumsy handling of the topic along with their bungling of the topic of rape, by Republicans may have cost them the election. Jeanne Monahan with March for Life claims in the below interview that 80% of Americans want restrictions on abortion, despite bids to enact personhood laws in various states have been struck down every single time.


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Dakota O'Leary

Dakota O'Leary is a freethinker, and often sassy, scholar of theology and literature. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Theology from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and her Master of Arts degree in Theology and Literature from Antioch University-Midwest. She is a contributing writer focusing on eschatology, biblical prophecy, and general religious news. Dakota is a co-host of the God Discussion radio show, offering insight to the news stories of the week. We like to call her "our in-house Biblical prophecy expert" as her articles on eschatology have received over 200,000 views on God Discussion.

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