Looks like Men are about even on their views on it over time, and Women can’t seem to make up their minds.
So it looks like men have been consistently near 50% with maybe a small decrease in recent years. Meanwhile about 10-15 % of women have gone towards pro-choice recently. I guess it makes sense once more women realized that “miscarriage care” can also be considered to be abortions under GOP laws.
Seems like everyone following what everyone else is doing depending on the Presidential influence..
Imagine people having spines and standing up for something they actually believed in and weren’t afraid of someone elses opinion for doing so.
That would require emotional intelligence and therefore impossible.
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I don’t know if I believe this graph. From what I’ve seen it’s more like 70-80% believe in it with caveats as we had, 15-20% believe in no limits ie abort in 3rd trimester if you want and 5-15% believe in none at all.
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What happened during the middle of Obama’s presidency, that caused both women and even moreso men to tank sharply?
Men need an opinion on abortion like a fish needs a bicycle.
Missing data point – overturning roe v wade
This is not a yes/no question. Abortion at what age, what cases etc.
This graph *really* needs a pale dashed line at 50%
Great chart to show why white males overwhelming voted for Trump…they want to control a procedure that woman support. It’s still about the white male feeling like they will lose their grip on society.
These really need error bars because most of that movement is just noise.
I don’t understand men. It’s 2024 you have to deal with the baby too. I don’t think you can fuck around and just run away.
What’s the question? Polls show majority support first trimester abortion , but dramatically less so for third trimester, while many make exceptions for certain scenarios like rape, health of mother etc.
it’s not a yes/no question for many people.
What question was asked?
These numbers are way off from the normal polling on this:
It’s not exactly peoples position on abortion. It’s whether or not the identify as pro-choice. You can be for a lot abortion in a lot of situations and still not identify as pro-choice.
Coincides with the narcissistic, tiktok generation of women that exist today.
Why has opinion about abortion remain unchanged for decades?
This subject is far too nuanced for this presentation. Very few people support an outright ban on all abortions, likewise most people believe that there should be restrictions beyond some point in development. People of both sexes are less polar on this than politicians and media would have you believe. The conflict is in where people want to draw lines.
I, for one do not believe the government should have any say in the matter whatsoever. Instead, I think it should be up to medical ethics boards/committees to determine when performing an abortion is unethical.
that’s exactly what I would expect to see with the democrats pinning the republicans with the “war on women” moniker during trumps presidency
Its pretty obvious when this changed. When your life is suddenly in danger, Is much easier to believe in Abortion rights. When it was legal federally, you could be pro-life and know, well if my life is in danger it wont be a problem. That’s the whole thing. Its easy to say there should be a ban on abortion, but if you stop considering the life of the woman, there is gonna be a problem, and a whole lot of people are going to fight you.
The last box should end when the data ends, not when the graph ends
This is an oddly unstable indicator. Which people are out there changing their minds on abortion? Or is this just measuring some demographic changes?
It’s kinda crazy that opinions have been sitting around 50% for both genders for years. Probably explains why the Democratic Party didn’t push to codify Roe V Wade. Why upset the status quo when you can play the middle position.
The cynic in me sees the uptick for women during the end of the Obama Era and sees it as the intended political game for both parties. Overturning Roe V Wade isn’t as important as both parties talking about Roe V Wade for the time leading up to the ruling. Men stayed largely the same, women shifted way more favorable to abortion rights. Probably what the Democratic Party Leadership was hoping for. Unfortunately, all of this at the expense of women across the nation.
It’s crazy to me that it is actually quite evenly split until recently; and even then, it’s not nearly as diametric as I’d imagined.
This is not “positions on abortion” per se. It’s self-identification, which varies based on how the individual defines “pro-choice” and “pro-life”. A significant number of people identify as pro-life because they think it means someone supports some restrictions on abortion. The position of most Americans is “abortion should be legal up to a point” no matter how they identify.
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Source: Gallup polls
Tool: Microsoft powerpoint
Looks like Men are about even on their views on it over time, and Women can’t seem to make up their minds.
So it looks like men have been consistently near 50% with maybe a small decrease in recent years. Meanwhile about 10-15 % of women have gone towards pro-choice recently. I guess it makes sense once more women realized that “miscarriage care” can also be considered to be abortions under GOP laws.
Seems like everyone following what everyone else is doing depending on the Presidential influence..
Imagine people having spines and standing up for something they actually believed in and weren’t afraid of someone elses opinion for doing so.
That would require emotional intelligence and therefore impossible.
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I don’t know if I believe this graph. From what I’ve seen it’s more like 70-80% believe in it with caveats as we had, 15-20% believe in no limits ie abort in 3rd trimester if you want and 5-15% believe in none at all.
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What happened during the middle of Obama’s presidency, that caused both women and even moreso men to tank sharply?
Men need an opinion on abortion like a fish needs a bicycle.
Missing data point – overturning roe v wade
This is not a yes/no question. Abortion at what age, what cases etc.
This graph *really* needs a pale dashed line at 50%
Great chart to show why white males overwhelming voted for Trump…they want to control a procedure that woman support. It’s still about the white male feeling like they will lose their grip on society.
These really need error bars because most of that movement is just noise.
I don’t understand men. It’s 2024 you have to deal with the baby too. I don’t think you can fuck around and just run away.
What’s the question? Polls show majority support first trimester abortion , but dramatically less so for third trimester, while many make exceptions for certain scenarios like rape, health of mother etc.
it’s not a yes/no question for many people.
What question was asked?
These numbers are way off from the normal polling on this:
[**https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/**](https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/)
I believe it’s higher, dunno why
It’s not exactly peoples position on abortion. It’s whether or not the identify as pro-choice. You can be for a lot abortion in a lot of situations and still not identify as pro-choice.
Coincides with the narcissistic, tiktok generation of women that exist today.
Why has opinion about abortion remain unchanged for decades?
This subject is far too nuanced for this presentation. Very few people support an outright ban on all abortions, likewise most people believe that there should be restrictions beyond some point in development. People of both sexes are less polar on this than politicians and media would have you believe. The conflict is in where people want to draw lines.
I, for one do not believe the government should have any say in the matter whatsoever. Instead, I think it should be up to medical ethics boards/committees to determine when performing an abortion is unethical.
that’s exactly what I would expect to see with the democrats pinning the republicans with the “war on women” moniker during trumps presidency
Its pretty obvious when this changed. When your life is suddenly in danger, Is much easier to believe in Abortion rights. When it was legal federally, you could be pro-life and know, well if my life is in danger it wont be a problem. That’s the whole thing. Its easy to say there should be a ban on abortion, but if you stop considering the life of the woman, there is gonna be a problem, and a whole lot of people are going to fight you.
The last box should end when the data ends, not when the graph ends
This is an oddly unstable indicator. Which people are out there changing their minds on abortion? Or is this just measuring some demographic changes?
It’s kinda crazy that opinions have been sitting around 50% for both genders for years. Probably explains why the Democratic Party didn’t push to codify Roe V Wade. Why upset the status quo when you can play the middle position.
The cynic in me sees the uptick for women during the end of the Obama Era and sees it as the intended political game for both parties. Overturning Roe V Wade isn’t as important as both parties talking about Roe V Wade for the time leading up to the ruling. Men stayed largely the same, women shifted way more favorable to abortion rights. Probably what the Democratic Party Leadership was hoping for. Unfortunately, all of this at the expense of women across the nation.
It’s crazy to me that it is actually quite evenly split until recently; and even then, it’s not nearly as diametric as I’d imagined.
This is not “positions on abortion” per se. It’s self-identification, which varies based on how the individual defines “pro-choice” and “pro-life”. A significant number of people identify as pro-life because they think it means someone supports some restrictions on abortion. The position of most Americans is “abortion should be legal up to a point” no matter how they identify.
And yet it made zero difference in the election
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