A Heartening Trend: Majority of American Adults Pro-Life

A Heartening Trend: Majority of American Adults Pro-Life

A new Gallup poll brings encouraging news on the subject of abortion.  Fifty percent of American adults now define themselves as pro-life (up 5% from 2011), and 41% of American adults now define themselves as pro-choice (down 8% from 2011).

Gallupfirst started asking American adults how they define themselves on the abortion issue back in 1995.  At that time, 56% of American adults considered themselves pro-choice, whereas 33% of adults defined themselves as pro-life.  Clearly, over the past seventeen years, the trend in this country has been steadily moving toward the pro-life position and away from the pro-choice...