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...large numbers of Evangelicals base their opposition on millenniums of Jewish and Christian teaching, according to which life in the womb is to be protected, except for severe threats to the mother. (Religious traditions differ on precisely what justifies abortion.) The issue is highly divisive. According to a Gallup poll last October, 50% of Americans think abortion should be outlawed with exceptions only for rape, incest or danger to the mother's life, a view that Falwell is willing to accept...
...shining on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. First there had been local elections in early May in which her Conservatives took a severe drubbing from the Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance. Then came a dark cloud of budding insurrection from within the Tory party, and finally the thunderclap of a new Gallup poll that showed how far the Conservatives have fallen. For the first time since their slump preceding the Falklands war in 1982, the Tories ranked third in a poll, trailing, at 30.5%, behind Labor's 34% and the Alliance...
...only to ask the panelists questions, not state contrary views or conflicting facts. Moreover, it is quite strange that, when 80 percent of Americans favor abortion only in the cases of rape, incest and threat to the mother's life, and when more women than men oppose abortion (as Gallup polls have consistently shown over the last 10 years), all three RUS panelists supported abortion-on-demand. Spitzer admits that there is a lack of consensus and disagreement in our society about abortion--wherefore, then, this ideologically monolithic panel? When groups like Feminists for Life and Women Exploited by abortion...
...assured they will recover." Columnist William Safire headlined a scathing critique ONLY THE 'FUN' WARS, and New York Democrat Stephen Solarz, who heads the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, pointed out, "It is a formula for national paralysis if, before we ever use force, we need a Gallup poll showing that two-thirds of the American people are in favor...
...Visiting Fellow this semester at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, Keene will try to make sense of public opinion to those enrolled in her study group, "Polls: The Legacy of George Gallup...