CBS Poll

A interesting website I came across had multiple polls about people's views and thoughts about abortion. A lot of the percentages were not surprising but they are a good example of how Americans view the topic today. Some of the polls also have dates so you can see the changes from back in the day until now. Opinions and thoughts on abortion has changed since Dirty Dancing came out because now it is legal in the United States. Below I copy and pasted one of the polls from the website that I found interesting.

In class we briefly talked about when is the right time frame that an abortion can be completed and the results go along with what we generally thought. 80% of the people who answered said that during the last 3 months abortion should be illegal. 2/3 said during the first 3 months abortion should be legal. We can relate this to book because Penny must have been in the early stages because she wasn't physically getting bigger yet. All of this data essentially represents our diverse population and includes thoughts from people that are for abortion and against abortion. We can realize that even though people have different opinions as a society there are some things we agree on as a whole. For example in the results below it is pretty obvious abortion is more accepted when it is completed within the first three months of pregnancy than in the last three months of pregnancy. It helped me realize that even though there are different opinions there are some topics/questions that society agrees with despite their opinion on the procedure. I noticed that my answers to a few of the questions were usually in that group with the bigger percentage, even though there were a lot of percentages that were close to half and half. It's definitely a topic with a two-sided argument, which is why it is important to address and deal with accordingly. 

Thinking more generally: Do you think abortion should generally be legal or generally illegal during each of the following stages of pregnancy? How about [see below]?"
		Legal	Illegal	Depends (vol.)	Unsure
		%	%	%	%
	"In the first three months of pregnancy"
	12/27-30/12	61	31	6	3
	6/9-12/11	62	35	2	1
	1/10-12/03	66	29	3	2
	3/30 - 4/2/00	65	31	2	2
	7/25-26/96	64	30	4	2
	"In the second three months of pregnancy"
	12/27-30/12	27	64	5	4
	6/9-12/11	24	71	3	2
	1/10-12/03	25	68	4	3
	3/30 - 4/2/00	24	69	4	3
	7/25-26/96	26	65	7	2
	"In the last three months of pregnancy"
	12/27-30/12	14	80	4	2
	6/9-12/11	10	86	2	1
	1/10-12/03	10	84	4	2
	3/30 - 4/2/00	8	86	3	3
	7/25-26/96http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm	13	82	3	2