The reaction to this week's 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision upholding the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act reminds us again of just how ambivalent most Americans remain on the thorny issue of legalized abortion. The most accurate formulation of the public's conflicted views is that voters are simultaneously pro-choice AND anti-abortion.

Majorities come to different decisions about the acceptability of abortion depending upon whether the question is "who is deciding" or " ...

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