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Poll Finds Support for Access to Contraception
Many lawmakers are out of step with the nation on family planning and reproductive rights, according to the latest polling data from NFPRHA. In a national poll conducted in May, 88 percent of voters, including four in five Republicans, support women's access to contraception. Eighty-six percent support Title X (ten), the government public health program that funds state and local family planning agencies that provide contraception to low-income women. Two-thirds of voters (66 percent) would support an increase in funding for Title X. Most Americans think that improving women's access to contraception is a more effective way to reduce the number of abortions than enacting more restrictive abortion laws.
Those are among the findings from a national public opinion survey of registered voters conducted by American Viewpoint for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) in May.
The poll also found that:
--Eight in ten self-identified "pro-lifers" say that women should have access to contraception.
--Voters overwhelmingly support Title X, by a margin of 86 percent to 13 percent. Seventy-three percent of Republicans, 77 percent of "pro-lifers" and 64 percent of "very conservative" voters support Title X programs.
--Eighty-six percent of voters and 85 percent of Catholic voters want the government to fund programs that provide contraception to women without health insurance.
--Upon learning that the President's Title X budget proposal of $286 million would provide contraceptive services to only about half of women who seek them, 66 percent of voters, 54 percent of frequent church attendees, and 63 percent of Catholic voters support an increase.
--Three in five voters (62 percent) do not think that support for Title X funding violates a lawmaker's pro-life position.
--Three in five voters (60 percent), and 62 percent of Catholic voters think that improving access to contraception is a better way to reduce the number of abortions in the U.S. than enacting more restrictive abortion laws.
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