politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — As Congress remains embroiled in a massive debate over whether to force Americans to pay for abortions through the new government-run health care programs, a new CNN poll finds 61 percent oppose government funding abortions with public dollars. It found 63 percent of Americans say abortion should be illegal in all cases or only in a few cases.
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bonestampNov 19, 2009
Those numbers don't make any sense. The number opposed to abortions should be higher than the number who appose tax-funded abortions. Surely some people who support abortion don't think it should be tax-funded and I doubt anyone who is opposed to abortions is ok with tax-funded abortions.
Closed AccountNov 19, 2009
seth,normally i digg you're stuff because of the unusual quality and your thoughtful comments. i afraid i can't do so here.you suggested 80 should read the sub. that's almost a tou violation on digg. but that's not my real issue. my real issue is that you should have known by 80's reply he was a lib. he didn't read the sub and attacked you personally before burying you. he was screaming i'm a lib digger.but you couldn't leave him alone. you had to bait him, you had to mock his disability. you asked him to add.buried for cruelty to liberals.
jmoore4skaNov 19, 2009
You are confusing "opposing abortion on some level" with "opposing abortion."Because there is no metric which states to what level people are measuring there opposition, it's inaccurate to assert that "opposing abortion on some level" is fit to be counted in a measurement with "opposing abortion." While some may only think abortion is acceptable in cases of rape or incest, some may only be opposed to cases in extremely late terms. Such a scale runs the gambit from one side to the other, so the most accurate representation of this particular data is, roughly, that a quarter support all abortion, a quarter support no abortion, and the rest fall somewhere in between.Your title is roughly equivalent to me saying "Only 23% of people are against abortion, while 76% support abortion in all or most circumstances." It's a similarly accurate statement (with 'only a few,' changed to 'most,' because the survey provides no evidence for either qualifier) but it reveals a bias and is quite disingenuous.All in all , the survey supports the idea that both sides are roughly equal. About a quarter on either extreme, and the rest falling somewhere on the scale in between.
Con_BrawlerNov 19, 2009Submitter
No, the wording specifically says, on page six of the PDF, that 40% of people feel that abortion should only be legal in a few circumstances (i.e. illegal in most instances) and 23% feel it shouldn't be legal in any instance. That's 63% of people who are opposed to unabated abortion (i.e. opposed to abortion on some level).
geogeerNov 19, 2009
Well obviously some of those who oppose abortions in almost all cases believe that in those few cases it should be funded.
bonestampNov 19, 2009
I don't agree that it affects women's rights, but I also don't think abortions, or any medical procedure should be illegal.
ninjaofpatienceNov 20, 2009
Ok. Is there a difference between wanting something out right banned and wanting something heavily regulated?If there is then there is a difference between the two, then lumping them together into a category of people who outright oppose it is inaccurate.