A 2012 Gallup poll found women (44%) were more likely than men (38%) to call themselves "pro-choice" and that men (53%) were more likely than women (46%) to call themselves "pro-life." But Gallup found that from 2001-2008, 48% of men and 49% of women self-identified as "pro-choice." Between 2009 and 2012, 43% of men and 45% of women identified as "pro-choice."
Suprise, suprise. It's comparable to what men think.
Why have you made women afraid to speak out, progressive left? Why do you silence half the population on every subject?
Do Men and Women View Abortion Differently? | RealClearPolitics
I'm not sure "women" is a monolithic group that all thinks the same. But off the bat, I would say that
religious people of both genders are prevented from thinking about the matter in any way other than anti-abortion, since most religions preach that life begins at conception. But religion is not part of our law. We have civil law, divorced from the various reglious beliefs of the people.
Not that it matters what the majority of people think. We the people do not vote on the rights of others. That is decided by the Constitution with its amendments, as interpreted by the S.Ct.
The right of privacy is FOR the ones whose rights might be invaded by others, even if those others are
the majority of the people. Maybe even especially when the others are the majority.
I don't think abortion is the right thing to do in many cases, and I would advise that. But it's not my body, and i is not homicide. An embryo is not a person. And the embryo is living inside another person's body. So that person has the right to say what happens in and with her body. There are cases where abortion is the right thing to do because of the circumstances and the woman. So it's a good thing she has that option.
Some people would love to have us all back in the days when women's lives were ruined by unplanned pregnancies, when desperate women would get their insides scraped out in dirty buildings by coat hangers. Thank goodness we've progressed past the dark ages.
One-third of all pregnancies spontaneously abort in the first trimester. It is little more than some blood, like a late period. There are no caskets, no headstones, no funeral. That's because most people recognize the difference between the first trimester embryo and a "person." That doesn't mean that people aren't sad because the embryo didn't develop to personhood. But that doesn't mean it was a person.
