Poll: Big Support For Mandated Contraception Coverage
A new CBS News/New York Times poll finds big support for mandating contraception coverage – including among Catholics:
Amid continued controversy surrounding an Obama administration policy mandating that women working at religiously-affiliated institutions be provided with free access to contraceptive health care, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that most Americans – including Catholics – appear to support the rule.
According to a survey, conducted between Feb. 8-13, 61 percent of Americans support federally-mandated contraception coverage for religiously-affiliated employers; 31 percent oppose such coverage.
The number is similar among self-professed Catholics surveyed: 61 percent said they support the Obama administration’s rule, while 32 percent oppose it.
Majorities of both men and women said they are in favor of the rule, though support among women is especially pronounced, with 66 percent supporting and 26 percent opposing it. Among men, 55 percent of men are in favor; 38 percent object.
The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.
In other words: this could wind up being a wedge issue — for the Democrats.
UPDATE: Gallup found this:
Catholics’ views of President Obama were little changed during a week in which the administration battled publicly with Catholic leaders over whether church-affiliated employers should have to pay for contraception as part of their employees’ health plans. An average of 46% of Catholics approved of the job Obama was doing as president last week, compared with 49% the prior week, a change within the margin of sampling error.
6 Responses to “Poll: Big Support For Mandated Contraception Coverage”
Would it be possible to have a meaningful poll about what Catholics think of their bishops?
I wonder what the numbers would be if rubbers were fifty bucks a pack, and you had to get a prescription.
Lost in all the alleged “uproar” about contraception, religion, and the government’s role is the fact that – if you’re a guy – contraception is available for a few bucks at your local Walgreens.
And Circle K.
And in the bathroom at the bar where you watch the game.
And at the gas station in that bad neighborhood where you were forced to stop for a few gallons of fuel.
In fact, male contraceptives are as available – if not more – as late night cheeseburgers, cigarettes, and alcohol. You don’t need a prescription, or a doctor’s permission, or a religious organization’s blessing to buy a box of condoms.
Yet not a single politician, pundit, or preacher has taken to the airwaves to speak about the scourge of baby-preventing products that are available in every truck stop and drug store from Washington state to Washington D.C.
Clearly, contraception is not the problem. Availability is not the problem. Price might be the problem, but I’d hazard a guess that the real problem is the sex of the person using the contraception in the first place.
Free rubbers would not be an election year issue. But free birth control pills?
Congress health care covered contraception for years. Where’s the outrage and why doesn’t Congress placate the old faRt bishops?
Jim, you hit it. Far more informative, but youd have to poll deep and wide, not just call a couple thousand
Indeed, so most Poles and even most Hungarians agree that mandated contraception is good. Among Reps, I assume not so.
Move to NY and other states where we already have it and the church accepts it. Why the big deal now, too many pedophiles around? One wonders.
duck– as the economy improved the cons needed an issue that would grab the base– so they seized on this idiotic non-issue.
It’s a war they started and a war they cannot win because most women will view this as an attempt to move them back to the 1950′s. Just look at the Rep’s surging candidate, and the fact that he is believes that allowing access to birth control leads to premarital sex which in his view is totally amoral and dangerous.
Is this the most urgent issue the US faces today? The fact that birth control allows women to have sex outside of marriage and not for procreation?