Title: 2020 Dems' stances abortion: Unjust and ignorant | TheHill
Headings: 2020 Dems' stances abortion: Unjust and ignorant
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Content: The number of Democrats calling themselves pro-life increased by 14 percentage points and the proportion of Democrats identifying as pro-choice dropped from 75 percent to 61 percent. Younger Americans’ position has also shifted dramatically and is now split almost evenly between 47 percent pro-life to 48 percent pro-choice. One month before the polling, the gap was almost 40 percentage points with only 28 percent identifying as pro-life and 65 percent identifying as pro-choice. Americans are now, for the first time since 2009, as likely to identify as pro-life as pro-choice. Only 13 percent of Americans believe that abortion should generally be legal in the third trimester. And even fewer — only 12 percent — support using federal tax dollars to fund abortions at any stage. The veil has been lifted on the Democratic Party’s 1996 statements describing abortion as a “difficult issue” we should make “less necessary” and “more rare”. Though the Democratic Party platform has long been in favor of abortion, in 2016, the Democrats adopted radical language promising to “oppose — and seek to overturn — federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment,” a law which prevents federal tax dollars from paying for abortions that has passed Congress with bipartisan support every year since it was first enacted in 1976. This month, on March 12, 2019, the Senate introduced a bill to reverse Hyde and force any federal health program to directly pay for abortions. This effort to reverse Hyde goes against the majority of Americans’ views, given that nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose their tax dollars paying for abortion.