Legal under any circumstance nearly always beats illegal under any circumstance. And legal under some circumstances rarely dips under 50%.
Compare 1975 to the present. Today 26% think abortion should be legal in any circumstance, 20% said it should be illegal in all cases (representing the polar opposites), and 52 percent thought it should be legal in certain circumstances. In 1975, those numbers were 21, 22 and 54, respectively. If you take the extremist abortionist with the people who believe in exceptions, then you have 78% in the present and 76% in '75!
Not much has changed, more than half back then think abortion should be legal under certain circumstances and more than half do today also.
Abortion | Gallup Historical Trends
I have no doubt the fight will rage on, but it all these decades nothing has changed. Might be time for a compromise. It seems most people fall in the middle and that isn't going to change.
However, I do not think you will ever win that 3/4 who support full or exception, with stances like no abortion for rape, incest, birth defects or the mother's life is in danger (which most even extremist pro-lifers allow this exception).
Compare 1975 to the present. Today 26% think abortion should be legal in any circumstance, 20% said it should be illegal in all cases (representing the polar opposites), and 52 percent thought it should be legal in certain circumstances. In 1975, those numbers were 21, 22 and 54, respectively. If you take the extremist abortionist with the people who believe in exceptions, then you have 78% in the present and 76% in '75!
Not much has changed, more than half back then think abortion should be legal under certain circumstances and more than half do today also.
Abortion | Gallup Historical Trends
I have no doubt the fight will rage on, but it all these decades nothing has changed. Might be time for a compromise. It seems most people fall in the middle and that isn't going to change.
However, I do not think you will ever win that 3/4 who support full or exception, with stances like no abortion for rape, incest, birth defects or the mother's life is in danger (which most even extremist pro-lifers allow this exception).