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Percentage Of Pro-Choice Americans Is Highest Since 2008
Percentage Of Pro-Choice Americans Is Highest Since 2008by Janie Velencia at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/pro-choice-americans_n_7471690.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
"SNIP...............
The percentage of Americans who describe themselves as "pro-choice" is the highest it's been in seven years.
According to a Gallup poll published Friday, 50 percent of Americans now identify as pro-choice, while 44 percent identify as pro-life. Gallup used the specific terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" in its questions.
When Gallup began asking the question in 1995, a majority of Americans considered themselves pro-choice, while only 30 percent of adults identified as pro-life. Later, beginning in 2009, a modest shift was observed, indicating a greater share of people who were pro-life. The shift was primarily a result of a 10-point rise in pro-life Republicans. In a 2009 post, Gallup suggested that the election of a pro-choice president for the first time in eight years had resulted in greater polarization on the issue.
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