Texas Latinos Overwhelmingly Support Abortion Rights

[Lakhota]

Despite the pervasive stereotype that most Latinos oppose abortion rights for religious reasons, new polling in Texas shows that Latino voters in the state overwhelming support a woman's right to have an abortion without interference from politicians. But the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" aren't resonating with them at all.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan research firm PerryUndem Research and Communication for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, found that Latinos support legal abortion when the issue is presented to them using different terms, such as "reproductive justice," "social justice" and "human rights."

"The language used to measure and categorize support for abortion rights falls short in resonating with our communities," said Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, executive director of the NLIRH. "They literally do not translate into Spanish."

"'Reproductive justice' is inclusive and addresses the multitude of issues our community faces," she added.

The poll found that Latino voters in Texas hold very similar views to Latino voters nationwide on abortion rights and the health insurance coverage of abortion and birth control. Exit polls in the 2012 elections showed that 66 percent of Latino voters believedabortion should be legal, while only 28 percent disagreed. In Texas, 6 out of 10 Latino voters said even if a church leader says abortion is wrong, it should be legal, and 78 percent said they agree that women should be able to make their own decisions about abortion.

More than three-fourths of respondents said birth control should be covered no matter where a person works, and 57 percent said women should have abortion coverage, even under a government-funded health insurance plan. Only about half of Latino voters in Texas had heard of the nationwide trend of laws being passed that chip away at abortion rights, but after hearing about the laws and their consequences, more than half of the respondents said the laws are moving in the wrong direction.

More: Texas Latinos Overwhelmingly Support Abortion Rights

Texass Governor Rick Perry and other NaziCons like him are fighting a losing battle. Women are wising up.

 

[whitehall]

Maybe the poll was in English and the Latinos thought that a yes would give them citizenship. Maybe the pro baby killer polsters just chose a certain demographic

 

[Katzndogz]

Most people support abortions for latinos too.

 

[S.J.]

I don't know why they would support it, they never use it.

 

[blackhawk]

From the poll.

Unfortunately, conducting methodologically sound survey research among the
Latino electorate is a very costly endeavor. That is likely the reason we have not
seen any other robust research on Latino voters’ values and attitudes toward
abortion since this 2011 poll.

Note there has been no serious polling on Latino's and abortion since 2011 you might also note the abortion darling Wendy Davis is trailing Greg Abbott by double digits.

 

[Silhouette]

Most Texas latinos oppose gay marriage. I guess you could say with this topic and that fact, they're the quintessential middle voting group....in the tens of millions...and growing..

 

[thereisnospoon]

Despite the pervasive stereotype that most Latinos oppose abortion rights for religious reasons, new polling in Texas shows that Latino voters in the state overwhelming support a woman's right to have an abortion without interference from politicians. But the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" aren't resonating with them at all.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan research firm PerryUndem Research and Communication for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, found that Latinos support legal abortion when the issue is presented to them using different terms, such as "reproductive justice," "social justice" and "human rights."

"The language used to measure and categorize support for abortion rights falls short in resonating with our communities," said Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, executive director of the NLIRH. "They literally do not translate into Spanish."

"'Reproductive justice' is inclusive and addresses the multitude of issues our community faces," she added.

The poll found that Latino voters in Texas hold very similar views to Latino voters nationwide on abortion rights and the health insurance coverage of abortion and birth control. Exit polls in the 2012 elections showed that 66 percent of Latino voters believedabortion should be legal, while only 28 percent disagreed. In Texas, 6 out of 10 Latino voters said even if a church leader says abortion is wrong, it should be legal, and 78 percent said they agree that women should be able to make their own decisions about abortion.

More than three-fourths of respondents said birth control should be covered no matter where a person works, and 57 percent said women should have abortion coverage, even under a government-funded health insurance plan. Only about half of Latino voters in Texas had heard of the nationwide trend of laws being passed that chip away at abortion rights, but after hearing about the laws and their consequences, more than half of the respondents said the laws are moving in the wrong direction.

More: Texas Latinos Overwhelmingly Support Abortion Rights

Texass Governor Rick Perry and other NaziCons like him are fighting a losing battle. Women are wising up.

So they polled 900 or so likely democrat voters in Texas who have Spanish surnames. And this proves what?

 

[Manonthestreet]

So this an admission the press lied about latinos to try to make importing more sound like a good idea.........family values ya know

 

[sameech]

Despite the pervasive stereotype that most Latinos oppose abortion rights for religious reasons, new polling in Texas shows that Latino voters in the state overwhelming support a woman's right to have an abortion without interference from politicians. But the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" aren't resonating with them at all.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan research firm PerryUndem Research and Communication for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, found that Latinos support legal abortion when the issue is presented to them using different terms, such as "reproductive justice," "social justice" and "human rights."

This is odd. On their website (New Polling on Latino a Attitudes Toward Abortion National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health the say the poll was conducted by Lake Research Partners which is a progressive group (Lake Research Partners ) but the article cites it as having been conducted by someone else. Feels like something is not kosher if they are altering who did the poll.