After Dobbs, 70% of women say avoiding pregnancy is important: KFF survey
https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2024/12/after-dobbs-70-of-women-say-avoiding-pregnancy-is-important-kff-survey.html
After Dobbs, 70% of women say avoiding pregnancy is important: KFF survey
https://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/2024/12/after-dobbs-70-of-women-say-avoiding-pregnancy-is-important-kff-survey.html
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If only more of them would vote
And how many women voted for the people who overturned Roe?
Why are we still taking surveys and polls seriously?
Meanwhile, JD Vance thinks it’s a good idea to punish people who don’t want to have kids.
What is the percentage of women avoiding Republicans? That is the stat I’d like to see.
So the whole “repopulate” thing isn’t working out now is it.
I mean, this is exactly the results the conservatives have always wanted. They don’t want sex out of wedlock anyway and largely are ok with liberals not having any more children.
And now all the people crying about “muh birth rate” are going to have to reckon with this.
Great now we’ll become a country of more angry incels. Thanks trump voters
And this is why Republicans are going after contraceptives.
And 6% are illiterate And hopeless.
Even women that want children can have a really fucked up pregnancy or even a potential death sentence from one if they live in a red state or an abortion ban goes nationwide. I think these right wing nutjobs and religious fanatics may have just accelerated the existing population contraction with their short sighted misogyny and attempt at control of women.
Elon and the other pro-population growth maniacs are going to lose their minds over this. How dare women want to be anything other than a broodmare for the state?!?
My wife and I agreed I needed to get a vasectomy. We live in Texas, I’m not going to risk her dying because they banned women’s healthcare here.
I am a woman so I can only guess but I expect similar percentage of men hold the same view:
“avoiding pregnancy is important”
Avoiding pregnancy over the next one month period per the article.
Too bad 70% of women couldn’t bother to vote like they cared about Dobbs.
what was the trend before Dobbs? i feel like the trend was woman avoiding/ putting off pregnancy for awhile now.
Message from a man to a man. Nutting into a woman and you claim no responsibility. If that person gets pregnant, makes you complicit for being irresponsible for the “feeling”.
That statistic in the vacuum in which its presented means absolutely nothing. There’s no control group to compare survey results now to survey results prior to the Dobbs decision. I would expect there to be some level of increase, but that’s not what the article or this survey are showing, they just throw out 70% with no further analysis into what that 70% actually represents. Additionally, the full paragraph from the survey itself that this article is pulling that 70% statistic states the following:
> Nearly seven in ten (69%) women of reproductive age say that avoiding pregnancy in the next month is very important to them (Figure 3). Pregnancy prevention is very important to nearly three in four (74%) women ages 18 to 25. While smaller shares of contraceptive non-users say it is very important for them to avoid pregnancy compared to contraceptive users (31% vs. 73%), four in ten (44%) still say it is important for them to avoid becoming pregnant in the next month. **There are not significant differences between women of certain demographics including race/ethnicity, income, disability, and abortion status in state of residence.**
The headline is also incredibly misleading as Dobbs has nothing to do with what was actually surveyed or what the survey presented. To anyone who didn’t actually read the survey results, it reads as “this 70% is because of Dobbs” when that’s not what the source material actually says. It’s like saying “After the passing of Carrie Fisher, the Al-Assad regime comes to an end” .
I bet that even before the Dobbs decision a lot of women would still say that avoiding pregnancy is important because even when abortions and contraceptive methods are legal, there’s still ramifications that women have to deal with when they exercise their rights to use those methods, it’s not a drive-through 2 minute procedure like getting an ice cream from a fast food restaurant like some conservatives think it is. The only women who probably see not getting pregnant as important likely are actively trying to have a kid or are in a situation where they would be okay if a kid comes along, so it’s not that important to them.
That 70% number is a good number to have for future comparisons if this same survey is conducted again with that same question, but it provides nothing of value as it’s presented. It also puzzles me as to why the survey did not ask the reasoning that women provided when they answered “Yes” on that question, they made no further attempt to understand survey participants in why they actually answered that way.
Will republicans actions lead to their own extinction?
This is just giving cons what they want
Not important enough to vote though…
I’ve always wanted kids, but only through adoption or fostering. I’ve become increasingly stumped on whether I should, or even *can* (both legally and mentally), be a parent some day, though.
It’s understandable why many people are scared to become parents even if they want to be. The health care problems, economy, environment… everything just seems more glum than it did even 20 years ago.
I hope it gets better in the next decade, but it’ll be an uphill battle.
What was the percentage before Dobbs?
***Thinks about his vasectomy and smiles to himself***
I got a vasectomy as soon as this all went down. Not risking impregnating anyone.
SCOTUS new ruling that women avoiding pregnancy is up to the states to decide.
I have struggled with infertility for the last year. A few weeks ago, one month prior to switching to IVF I got a positive pregnancy test. While I would naturally shy away from telling anyone this soon I think my caution is turning into paranoia. If everything goes as planned I will not be telling anyone outside of my husband and doctor until all tests come back negative for any sort of birth defect. I am in a safely blue area and have the means to travel abroad if necessary. Still, I want to make sure I have plausible deniability should I need to express my freedoms to terminate for medical reasons. Will these measures help? No idea, but that’s where I’m at.
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