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Pro-Choice and Pro-Life? On Abortion, Americans say “It’s Complicated.”

posted on May 30, 2012

Robert P. Jones at The Washington Post comments on how the abortion debate is not a binary choice, despite it’s pro-choice/pro-life rhetoric. Jones digs into Gallup’s most recent polling data and a national survey his own Public Religion Research Institute, finding: 43 percent of Americans describe themselves as “both ‘pro-choice’ and ‘pro-life.’” Arguing for more clarity in the debate on abortion, Jones sees Americans’ perspectives on abortion as complex and “nuanced.”

Read at The Washington Post