The trouble with polls like this is, as some on this thread have already pointed out, that people's positions are often not black and white. There are those who consider themselves pro-life, in that they are opposed to any unnecessary terminations, but would, under certain circumstances, not make it illegal. Then there are those who call themselves pro-choice who strongly disapprove of using abortion as simply a contraceptive measure. And then there are those who have a more or less polarized view--the ones this poll was presumably designed to measure.

My intuitive guess is that many people fall into an in-between category, though I have no statistics to back that up.

This poll was not the best instrument to guage such subtleties. A lot would depend on precisely how the questions were phrased.

[edit on 22-5-2009 by Sestias]

I would say almost everyone is pro-life I mean who wants to be anti-life maybe a serial killer or something. The problem comes when people are so propagandized pro-life means things like controlling other peoples choices and limited a woman's control over her own body. No one likes abortion it's not a pleasant thing but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

My biggest problem with those that describe themselves as pro lifers is that they are also the same ones that are quick to send someone else's child off to die in a war that's only purpose is to make big profits for the military industrialist.... These same folks are pro death, but some how don't see it that way.