| 88% of voters believe that all men and women should be able to decide the number and spacing of their children. |
| Advancing women's health by creating an environment in which the public and elected officials confidently support women's health policy. |
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| When it comes to reproductive health, we often seem like a nation divided. Reading newspapers or listening to political debates, one might think that adults cannot decide whether to provide funding for family planning services or restrict access to birth control.
In fact, when asked, the vast majority of American voters support access to comprehensive women's health care and information and disapprove of the government’s restriction of prevention care, education and coverage. |
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| Pharmacist Refusals | | Should pharmacists who personally oppose birth control for religious reasons be able to refuse to sell birth control pills to women who have a prescription for them, or shouldn't pharmacists be able to refuse to sell birth control pills?
Should be able to refuse 16%
Should not be able to refuse 78%
Don't know/No answer 6% |
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| Contraceptive Coverage | | Some private health insurance plans do not include the cost of contraceptives as part of their prescription drug plans. Do you think the federal government should require all health insurance plans to cover the cost of contraceptives as has occurred in several states already? Or should the federal government leave this up to individual states?
Federal government require all health insurance plans to cover contraceptives 44 %
Federal government leave this up to individual states 49%
Neither (Vol.) 4%
Don't know 2%
Refused 1%
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| Access to Birth Control | | | Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive poll: The majority of U.S. adults believe information and access to birth control should be more available, according to an online survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal and Harris Interactive. The poll, which surveyed 2,689 U.S. adults between June 9 and June 13, finds that 89% of the adults surveyed believe that information about birth control should be more accessible; 81% believe that providing access to birth control is a good way to prevent abortions; 73% believe that a person's access to birth control should not be limited by someone's ability to pay for it; and 58% believe that emergency contraception -- which can prevent pregnancy if taken up to 72 hours after sexual intercourse -- should be easily available in all pharmacies. The survey also finds that 46% of participants believe teens should be allowed access to contraception without their parents' knowledge (Wall Street Journal, 6/20). |
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| | 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. |
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- Roughly three quarters of likely voters (77%) agree that the government and politicians should stay out of a woman's personal and private decision whether or not to have an abortion.
- Two-thirds of voters disapprove of the laws passed in South Dakota and Louisiana that would ban abortion in nearly all circumstances, even for victims of rape and incest or women whose health is at risk.
- 65% of voters feel less favorable toward candidates who support allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions.
- 61% of voters feel more negative toward a candidate who opposes making emergency contraception available in emergency rooms for rape and incest victims.
- 61% of voters disapprove when they hear Congress has voted 145 times in the last 10 years to restrict reproductive-health services, including abortion and birth control.
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| Sex Education | | From contraceptive coverage to comprehensive sex education, Americans support a reproductive health agenda that will make a real difference in the lives of women and families:
73% strongly favor making it easier for women at all income levels to obtain contraceptives.
76% want to see U.S. public schools teaching comprehensive sex education.
75% want to make sure women's right to contraception is protected.
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| Contraceptives for Students | | | Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults favor allowing public schools to provide contraceptives to students, including 37% who favor providing them only to children whose parents have consented and 30% who favor providing them to all students who ask. |
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