{"id":280,"date":"2012-04-21T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T15:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=280"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:55:28","slug":"rasmussen-poll-47-think-abortion-is-morally-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Rasmussen poll: 47% think abortion is morally wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new low for that number. But this poll may be an &quot;outlyer&quot;. Other recent polling has shown the number to be higher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/abortion\/new_low_47_view_abortion_as_morally_wrong_most_of_the_time\" target=\"_self\">Roughly half of the nation\u2019s voters remain pro-choice when it comes to abortion, and the number of voters who view the procedure as morally wrong in most situations is below 50% for the first time. <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Overall, 51% of Likely U.S. Voters consider themselves pro-choice when  it comes to abortion, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national  telephone survey. Forty percent (40%) say they are pro-life, while  another 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/questions\/pt_survey_questions\/april_2012\/questions_abortion_april_16_17_2012\" target=\"_self\">&#0160;click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new low for that number. But this poll may be an &quot;outlyer&quot;. Other recent polling has shown the number to be higher. Roughly half of the nation\u2019s voters remain pro-choice when it comes to abortion, and the number of voters who view the procedure as morally wrong in most situations is below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}