CNN Poll: 62% of Americans Want All or Most Abortions Illegal

I’ve argued with lefties on numerous occasions about abortion and have told them that someday abortion will be looked on as an evil at least as great as slavery. Those that support abortion today are on the wrong side of history, and are becoming dinosaurs compared to the shifting public opinion on the abortion issue. From LifeSiteNews:

A new CNN national poll of Americans finds results that are almost identical to a Gallup survey earlier this year, and it shows 62% of Americans want all or most abortions made illegal.

CNN asked the question, “Do you think abortion should be legal under any circumstances, legal under only certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?” The survey found 25 percent of Americans want all abortions legal while 21 percent want all abortions illegal, and it had a large group of 53 percent of Americans saying abortions should be legal only under certain circumstances.

However, with a large percentage of Americans opposing abortions except in cases such as taking of the life of the mother, or cases of rape or incest — both of which, combined, constitute less than two percent of all abortions in the nation, according to the Guttmacher Institute — most Americans truly want 100% of 98 percent of the 1.2 million abortions a year made illegal.

A follow-up question CNN asked showed that to be the case.

What is truly remarkable about this poll is that young people are the most firmly against abortion, despite often being very liberal (or maybe just uninformed?):

By age, Americans also oppose abortions — with 59 percent of people aged 18-34, 58 percent of those 35-54 and 64 percent of those over the age of 55 saying all or almost all abortions should become illegal. Younger Americans are most supportive of making all abortions illegal, with 24 percent of 18-34 year-olds saying so and 35 percent saying they want abortions legal only in a few circumstances.

I truly believe that it’s only a matter of time before abortion is largely outlawed in the United States and around the world. And as with slavery and segregation (and maybe global warming?), those in the Democratic Party will once again be the ones clinging to a dying issue and refusing to change with the times.