By CatholicVote | Created at 2024-11-22 22:21:25 | Updated at 2024-11-23 03:48:51
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CV NEWS FEED // Exit polls that the Demetree Institute for Pro-life Advancement (IPA) conducted found that young voters demonstrated significant support for abortion restrictions regardless of their overarching “pro-life” or “pro-abortion” affiliations.
The polls were conducted on or around college campuses in nine of 10 states where abortion measures were on the ballot. The majority (66%) of the 1,472 participants were members of Gen Z or Millennials, and 14% of participants represented Gen X or were Baby Boomers. Twenty percent did not identify their ages, but IPA assumed they were mainly young voters, given the location of the polling.
Of the total participants, 28% identified as Democrat, 29% as Republican, and 11% as Independent. Fifty-seven percent called themselves “pro-abortion”, while 37% said they were “pro-life.” Only 27% supported abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
According to a summary report from IPA, “Pro-life and pro-abortion voters agreed on one thing: Abortion motivated their vote with a slight advantage for LIFE.”
Two-thirds of voters who identified as pro-life said abortion was their top issue when they voted, and 59% of pro-abortion voters said abortion was their top issue when voting.
However, the report added, “The majority of voters did not agree with the unlimited abortion policy the ballot referendums would create. Of those who reported voting ‘Yes’ on their state ballot referendum, more than half (52%), reported prioritizing something other than abortion through all nine months, which the passed ballot initiatives will allow. Other concerns involved abortion in rare cases or the need for parental involvement.”
The data also reveal that 75% of participants who voted “No” on their respective abortion referendums also supported abortion restrictions through all nine months of pregnancy.
“Pro-abortion ballot referendums may have temporarily served as a one-trick pony to capitalize on lingering post-Roe angst from abortion supporters, but it only further galvanized the Pro-Life Movement with the truth we’ve known all along: the American people do not actually want abortion laws that are more radical than the vast majority of the world,” the report stated.
It continued, “And for pro-abortion politicians or media who point to polling that says abortion represents a voter’s priority issue, that does NOT mean they want more abortion. As our survey of more pro-abortion than pro-life voters noted, when abortion is issue No. 1, the advantage is for Life.”
Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins celebrated the poll’s results.
“Faced with confusing language and misinformation, voters who supported late-term abortion ballot referendums did so against their better judgment,” she stated in a news release. “Despite decades of abortion industry lobbying to sell a lie that no one is buying, the Demetree Institute for Advancement found in our survey of voters exiting poll locations that most young voters still want limits on abortion.”
Hawkins added, “All the money spent by a billion-dollar abortion machine has been a wrecking ball of false statements and fear-mongering to pressure voters to support abortion, but that doesn’t mean young voters want abortion up until birth.”
