Opinion Today
June 13, 2024
Record Share of U.S. Electorate Is Pro-Choice and Voting on It Megan Brenan & Lydia Saad, Gallup A record-high 32% of U.S. voters say they would only vote for a candidate for major office who shares their views on abortion. The importance of a candidate’s abortion stance to one’s vote is markedly higher among pro-choice voters than it was during the 2020 presidential election cycle, while pro-life voters’ intensity about voting on the abortion issue has waned.
Americans Back IVF; Divide on Morality of Destroying Embryos Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Americans are broadly comfortable with the use of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, with 82% saying it is morally acceptable and 10% saying it is morally wrong. However, they are more divided about destroying frozen human embryos created by in-vitro fertilization, with 49% believing it is moral to do so and 43% disagreeing.