Poll: 50 percent of all Catholics support abortion in ‘all or most cases’

07/28/2013 at 4:11 PM Posted by Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Editors note: Have you heard a homily about abortion in 40 years?

Editors note: Have you heard a homily about abortion in 40 years?

Half of all Catholics believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a poll commissioned by The Washington Post and ABC in the wake of the murder convictions of Philadelphia House of Horrors abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

Fifty percent of Catholics said they believed abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances, while 45 percent say it should be illegal in the same circumstances. That was only moderately more pro-life than the American public as a whole, which favored abortion 55-41.