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CES support or opposition to permitting abortion only in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the woman's life, asked with the same wording in four CES waves.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 52% answered “Support” in CES: Permit abortion only for rape, incest, or life danger, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Abortion only for rape, incest, or life endangerment | Abortion only for rape, incest, or life endangerment Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Permit abortion ONLY in case of rape, incest or when the woman’s life is in danger] Caveat: 2018 wording is truncated and has a stray prefix fragment, but the item is the same | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Permit abortion only for rape, incest, or life endangerment | Permit abortion only for rape, incest, or life endangerment On the topic of abortion, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Permit abortion only in case of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger] Caveat: Wording is truncated in the archive; the item is the same | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Abortion only for rape, incest, or life endangerment | Abortion only for rape, incest, or life endangerment On the topic of abortion, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Permit abortion only in case of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger] Caveat: None; same wording and scale | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Permit abortion only for rape, incest, or life danger | Permit abortion only for rape, incest, or life danger On the topic of abortion, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Permit abortion only in case of rape, incest or when the woman's life is in danger] Caveat: None; same wording and scale | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |