A new poll found that nearly two-thirds of young voters are not in favor of unlimited abortion, revealing a stark difference between the views of the young and the rhetoric of the Democratic Party heading into the election year.
The Students for Life of America (SFLA) & Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement (IPA) 2024 YouGov Poll contained “results coming from 27% Gen Z, ages 18 to [2]5, and 73% from Millennials, ages 26 to 41.”
Of the poll’s respondents, 51% said they were women while 46% said they were men – a total of 97%. The remaining 3% claimed to be “non-binary” or “other.”
Per the poll’s findings, “more than 6 in 10 (65%) of the Youth Vote support limits on abortion, in all or some circumstances,” IPA noted. “This is the same finding as in 2023,” despite what IPA referred to as “massive media misinformation on abortion.”
IPA found that 10% more young voters believe “abortion should either never be legal or legal only up to the point at which a baby can live outside the womb” in 2024 compared to in 2023.
In the new poll, three-quarters of respondents opposed abortion after “viability.” Just last year, this proportion was 65%.
Furthermore, the poll found that 91% of respondents do not support allowing abortion “through all 9 months without limits, up to and including allowing infanticide — the death of a baby born during a botched abortion.”
The IPA claimed that the vast majority of House Democrats support that radical stance, and cited voting records to make their case.
Specifically, the pro-life organization referred to the “Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021,” an extreme pro-abortion bill that passed the then-Democratic controlled House in September 2021.
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The legislation, proposed by Rep. Judy Chu, D-CA, would have “prohibit[ed] governmental restrictions on the provision of, and access to, abortion services.”
Of the members who voted, all Democrats with the exception of Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-TX, voted in favor. All voting Republicans voted against it.
The bill eventually died, as the Senate never voted on it.
IPA also cited the “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act” to back their assertion that Democratic leadership supports infanticide.
The bill passed in January 2023 shortly after Republicans retook control of the House. All Democrats except for two voted against it – Cuellar voted in favor, and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-TX, voted “present.”
As FOX News reported at the time, the bill
says any infant born alive after an attempted abortion is a “legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States.” Doctors would be required to care for those infants as a “reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive.”
Ninety-one percent of young voters stated they support measures aimed at saving the lives of children born during abortions, according to the poll.
Again from IPA:
72% supported emergency measures including calling 911 with 19% desiring care, not including 911. Mirroring the same level of radical support as for the Democratic Party’s abortion views, only 9% picked: “Nothing should be done since the mother was trying to have an abortion done.”
View the full poll results here.
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
