Men and women differ on whether abortion should be legal.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16% of men think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.

21% of women think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/127559/Education-Trumps-Gender-Predicting-Support-Abortion.aspx





Conventional wisdom is that abortion prohibition is about men wanting to control women's reproduction.

This suggests that abortion prohibition is more about women wanting to control other women's reproduction.

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[CLANG]

1. .

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[William Z. Foster]

2. poor men

So oppressed. So persecuted. So misunderstood.

[ZombieHorde]

6. I wish I could get paid finding fallacious statements on DU. nt

[TexasObserver]

3. Yes, there simply aren't that many men who oppose abortion.

There seem to be a lot more women who insist on having a child than fathers-to-be who favor it.

It's good to see evidence it really isn't men who are making women have children they don't want.

[RainDog]

4. I've always thought abortion opponents were a noisy subset of panty sniffers among men

and the reality is that an overwhelming majority of males and females support Roe v. Wade.

that's why it is SO WRONG for democrats to EVER pander to a small percentage of the population when an entire gender's privacy is at stake.

[Captain Hilts]

12. That's why how it is reported is so false. A strong majority of Catholics are pro-Choice - except

for the Catholics on the Supreme Court...except Sotomayor.

[abq e streeter]

5. Uh oh, now you've done it---

posting facts again, eh, L.J? which have been pretty consistent over recent years, that men and women support and /or oppose abortion rights in relatively similar percentages, in this case, men actually a little more supportive of women's right to choose.

[pennylane100]

7. there is an easy solution to this.

Men who do not approve of abortion should not be forced to get one.

[Withywindle]

8. And the overwhelming majority of both think abortion should be legal.

Seriously, the percentages quoted in your OP? Less than the percentage of Americans who still thought Bush was a good President in his last year, and FAR less than the percentage of Americans who believe in angels and UFOs.

But yeah, actually I do think it's true that some women are really invested in policing other women's sexuality. It's one of the bad qualities of a very small minority of women. Newsflash: women are individuals. We don't agree with each other, or even like each other, any more (or less) than men do.

[get the red out]

9. More women bow down to Churches too

I believe more women are brain-washed in Church as well, though I don't have any statistics, I have just always heard that more women get into religion than men. Religion hates women's rights so these women would definitely go against their own.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Women and blacks have higher church attendance than men and whites. nt

[harry_pothead]

15. Well sort of

The percentage that say "legal in some circumstances" includes people who think abortion should only be legal in cases of rape, incest, or life of mother. In American politics, that view is typically slated as "pro-life."

[chillspike]

10. If the anti-abortionists ever get their way I wonder...

...how forced childbirth will go over with women?

[Captain Hilts]

11. That's within the margin for error. But the difference between the sexes is small. nt

[harry_pothead]

14. There is hardly a gender difference there.

And it is true that throughout history, most systematic oppression of women has come at the hands of other, usually older, women.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. I do find the 1992-1994 polling interesting.

"Safe, legal and rare" was a good ethical argument.