Good news. Certainly a move in the right direction. See especially the last paragraph, "And there's more..."
Poll: Majority favor abortion funding ban - CNN.com
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning indicates that 61 percent of the public opposes using public money for abortions for women who can not afford the procedure, with 37 percent in favor of allowing the use of federal funds.
And by a 51 percent to 45 percent margin, those questioned in the survey think that women who get abortions should pay the full costs out of their own pocket, even if they have private health insurance and no federal funds are involved. The 6-point difference is within the poll's sampling error.
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"Roughly one in five Americans who oppose the House health care bill do so because it is not liberal enough," said CNN polling director Keating Holland. "The abortion issue may be one reason why. But for most Americans, potential restrictions on abortion may not be a deal-breaker."
And there's more, but you have to dig through the poll results here
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/11/17/rel17f.pdf
to find that only 36% of those polled think abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances, while 63% think it should be legal in (only) a few circumstances, or "illegal in all circumstances". See questions 34-36.
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