MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SAY ABORTION IS MORALLY WRONG, NEW SURVEY FINDS

A strong majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong, a position that younger Americans hold by a wider margin that those in the Baby Boom generation, a new Knights of Columbus survey found.

The survey of 2,243 Americans conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion found overall 56 percent of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong.

Fifty-eight percent of those age 18-29 believe abortion to be morally wrong, compared with 51 percent of Baby Boomers. Most of the “Millennials” (age 18-29) were born after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Sixty percent of members of “Generation X” (those 30-44) believe abortion is morally wrong, the survey found. Those in the “Greatest Generation” (age 65 and older) had the strongest feelings against abortion, with 62 percent saying it is morally wrong.

“Americans of all ages – and younger people in even greater numbers than their parents – see abortion as something morally wrong,” said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson. “America has turned a corner and is embracing life – and in doing so is embracing a future they, and all of us, can be proud of.”

Anderson continued: “The majority of Americans now understand that abortion has consequences, and that those consequences are not good.”