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[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I'm probably over limit, so I'll shut up now. But there *is* a
demographic breakdown of Gallup's numbers available - from the
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, of all places. These are
1999 figures; the 1995 in the URL is a red herring.

The "certain circs" are never defined, either in the Sourcebook or on
Gallup's website, but they do provide a breakdown between "most
circs" and "a few circs" at
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/indabortion.asp>. The "few"
outnumber the "mosts" by more than 3 to 1, so it sounds like a pretty
restrictive definition, and a long way from the classic feminist
principle of "free abortion on demand."

Doug

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<http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t2103.pdf>

Do you think abortions should be legal under any circumstances, legal
only under
certain circumstances, or illegal in all circumstances?
(U.S., by demographic characteristics, 1999)

                         always      certain       never          no
                         legal    circumstances    legal       opinion

national                  27           55           16            2
sex
  male                    23           57           15            5
  female                  31           50           17            2
race
  white                   27           55           15            3
  black                   28           46           22            4
  nonwhite                29           49           19            3
age
  18-29                   29           50           18            3
  30-49                   32           53           12            3
  50-64                   24           58           14            4
  50+                     20           57           19            4
  65+                     16           55           25            4
education
  post-grad               35           53            8            4
  college grad            35           48           14            3
  some college            32           48           17            3
  no college              19           60           18            3
income
  $75,000+                41           47           10            2
  $50,000+                34           51           13            2
  $30,000-49,999          28           59           11            2
  $20,000-29,999          22           55           19            4
  under $20,000           17           55           24            4
community
  urban                   33           48           15            4
  suburban                29           53           15            3
  rural                   16           62           19            3
region
  East                    36           47           14            3
  Midwest                 24           56           17            3
  South                   18           59           19            4
  West                    36           50           12            2
politics
  Republican              16           59           24            1
  Democrat                31           49           15            5
  Independent             31           54           12            3

from Gallup Poll, via Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics