A Brief Summary Of Abortion Issues

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This article was talking about many different polls that this company Gallup did from 1975 to 2015. The questions they asked everyone was do you believe abortions should be legal under any circumstances? They even asked with all due respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life. They asked many other questions that were everyone’s opinion, and how they felt about the situation. Many of those answers were very close, but some were very different in amount. Lastly they asked if you favor or oppose that if women under 18 need parental consent for any abortion, etc.

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