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Americans have become more tolerant of a number of historically divisive moral issues. The issues can be grouped into five categories of moral acceptance, ranging from nearly universal acceptance to high condemnation.

Support for making it legal for doctors to help terminally ill patients die ranges from a bare majority, 51%, to a supermajority, 70%, depending on how the question reads. Support for doctor-assisted "suicide" is down in recent years.

While in general, Americans do not favor giving animals the same rights and protections as humans, 38% do favor an outright ban on horse and dog racing.

A recent Gallup Poll finds Americans are generally divided about whether doctor-assisted suicide is morally acceptable or morally wrong. Even so, a majority of Americans believe doctors should be allowed to help a terminally ill patient commit ...

Gallup's annual survey on Values and Beliefs, conducted May 8-11, 2006, finds that the vast majority of Americans continue to support "right-to-die" laws for terminally ill patients. An analysis of Gallup data collected since 2003 shows that ...

The Gallup Poll Social Series is a monthly, in-depth report series that explores key Gallup Poll data trends and social topics.

The latest Gallup annual survey on values and beliefs shows that 75% of Americans support euthanasia -- allowing a doctor to take the life of a patient who is suffering from an incurable disease and wants to die. But the survey also finds that a ...

Gallup Poll data confirm that committed Catholics are much more likely to share the church's views on moral issues than are non-committed Catholics. Gallup surveys also reveal that on many moral issues, practicing Protestants, as a group, are ...

Gallup’s 2004 Values and Beliefs poll asked respondents about the legality of doctor-assisted suicide using two separate questions. The first question describes the patient as having a “disease that cannot be cured” for which the doctor would ...

Americans continue to grapple with the issue of doctor-assisted suicide as the federal government appeals its recent legalization in Oregon. As Oregonians challenged current social standards regarding euthanasia, Gallup took a look at the ...