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Majority of Americans Want Strict Limits on Abortion


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Majority of Americans Want Strict Limits on Abortion

(Austin, TX—May 18, 2022) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted May 6th through May 8th of over 1,000 likely 2022 election voters.

“The left is pulling out all the stops in an attempt to create the perception that a majority of Americans support unrestricted abortion,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States Action. “But as these numbers show, American voters–including more than a third of Democrats–have paid attention to the science of fetal development, and support a variety of restrictions on abortion.”

For complete details on the poll, including graphics, please visit:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B_VhOCr-3qTKAslhnt_j3VRS8O6-d4Lf/view 

KEY INSIGHT: Majority of Voters Want Strict Limits on When Abortion Should be Legal:

  • 57.6 percent of American voters believe that abortion should only be legal in specific circumstances:
    • 24 percent say illegal except in the case of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
    • 13.9 percent say illegal except in the case of the mother.
    • 19.7 percent say illegal after a fetal heartbeat can be detected
  • 30.8 percent of American voters believe that abortion should be legal in the first and second trimesters.

  • 11.6 percent of American voters believe that abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth, including partial birth.

KEY INSIGHT: Majority of Independents Join Republicans in Wanting Strict Limits on Abortion, Over 1/3 of Democrats Also Want Strict Limits:   

  • 54.6 percent of Independent voters believe that abortion should only be legal in specific circumstances:
    • 21.6 percent say illegal except in the case of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
    • 15.1 percent say illegal except in the case of the mother.
    • 17.9 percent say illegal after a fetal heartbeat can be detected
  • 33.8 percent of Independent voters believe that abortion should be legal in the first and second trimesters, and 11.5 percent believe abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth, including partial birth.

  • 81.5 percent of Republican voters believe that abortion should only be legal in specific circumstances:
    • 35.7 percent say illegal except in the case of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
    • 23.1 percent say illegal except in the case of the mother.
    • 22.7 percent say illegal after a fetal heartbeat can be detected
  • 14 percent of Republican voters believe that abortion should be legal in the first and second trimesters, and 4.5 percent believe abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth, including partial birth.

  • 35.9 percent of Democrat voters believe that abortion should only be legal in specific circumstances:
    • 14.2 percent say illegal except in the case of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
    • 3.5 percent say illegal except in the case of the mother.
    • 18.2 percent say illegal after a fetal heartbeat can be detected
  • 45.3 percent of Democrat voters believe that abortion should be legal in the first and second trimesters, and 18.8 percent believe abortion should be legal up until the moment of birth, including partial birth.

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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