Religious Right Ignoring the Specifics About Those Majority "Pro-Life" Polls

Religious Right leaders just cannot get enough of citing public opinion polls that show more Americans consider themselves to be "pro-life" than "pro-choice" and citing them as evidence that the majority of Americans share their radical anti-choice agenda.

So when polls come out that demonstrate that most Americans do not, in fact, support efforts to outlaw abortion, the only logical response is to claim that the poll in question is misleading:

One conservative leader is questioning a recent poll from Pew Research that suggests Americans favor laws that reduce abortion but don't want the practice abolished.

Concerned Women for America (CWA) suggests the poll contradicts others that show a majority of Americans are pro-life. The question posed in the poll was whether abortion ought to be legal or illegal in all or most cases, but CWA president Wendy Wright thinks that unfairly limits answers to the extremes, when the question should take a closer look at specifics.

"If the pollster had broken down the questions to reflect some of the reality of what abortion is, what it does to women, some of the reasons why women have abortions, then we would have seen a very different result," she suggests, noting that other polls show a majority of people do not believe late-term abortions should be allowed. 

Let's take a look at the specifics, shall we?

At best, only a quarter of Americans support completely outlawing abortion, which is the Religious Right's primary goal.  So if anyone is ignoring the specifics of poll results in an effort to create a misleading impression, it is the Religious Right.