... more) Martin Paul Eve on DFW

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

+ ... The General Social Survey, which has been tracking American 
opinions for decades, includes the question of whether a woman should be 
allowed to get an abortion if she “wants it for any reason.” In 17 of 
the 23 years that this question has been asked, men have answered “yes” 
to a greater extent than women. The average difference was about 1.5 
percentage points — a small but consistent gender gap, if not the one 
people seem to expect.So what is it about women that makes them less 
enthusiastic than men about abortion on demand? Again, the survey offers 
answers. Using a common statistical method, one can determine the effect 
of different variables on an outcome of interest — in this case, the 
odds that someone will agree or disagree with the question. This reveals 
that the difference between men and women is not, in fact, likely 
because of their sex, but because of other factors that happen to 
correlate with sex.

As it happens, religious attendance and biblical literalism, as well as 
political ideology, were all highly predictive of attitudes toward 
abortion. Being Hispanic also was associated with being opposed to 
abortion on demand (even allowing for other variables, such as religiosity).

In contrast, sex and age were usually not independently significant. 
Probably the mediating factor here is that, according to most surveys, 
women tend to be more religious than men.

While, on the whole, there isn’t a major difference in the sexes’ 
attitudes toward abortion, there is one when we separate men and women 
by ideology. If we look at the data since 2000 (to get a more 
contemporary perspective), on the liberal end of the ideological 
spectrum men are consistently less supportive of abortion on demand than 
women. On the conservative end of the spectrum, it’s women who like 
abortion on demand less than men do.

In other words, conservative women are the most anti-abortion segment of 
the population, and liberal women are the most in favor of abortion 
rights. You might say that the more significant difference here is not 
between men and women, but among women.

It may be that some have generalized this difference — men being less 
enthusiastic about abortion on demand among liberals — to the whole 
population. The critic Pauline Kael’s 1972 assertion that she personally 
knew only one person who voted for President Richard M. Nixon has become 
a favorite illustration of the cultural isolation of liberal elites. But 
this simply may be the reality, that Americans are ideologically 
polarized and inhabit different and mutually exclusive social worlds.

Stereotypes flourish in ignorance. Liberal and conservative perceptions 
of one another can be ignorant and patronizing because they have so 
little personal experience of one another. Intriguingly, research by the 
social psychologists Jesse Graham, Brian A. Nozek and Jonathan Haidt has 
shown that liberals exhibit the least accurate perception of those with 
opposing political views ... +

https://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/data-refute-the-abortion-stereotype/?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=346fc700895f63f2bd65480d5b61adcd13376025-1585173215-0-AXKmFdmwxc5lhmtOGBepK3jmrwa-ceuy-0_Ep_wj1AELpNvdOBQivttqacquQoxdIs1uOMalUfXXyjilgUMgwwrvjR4HjINV-qdsMdWPMaAS3F7JFPoOs0n0-h1nc454wbsHoUXKqsQUaF173Lr8uKhdPljKYQNMxmb9ojI3XrMpOJzv7SW4tBfZCt2p-KbWN5iF0gp8dKqgroIaKKVRRyl9IXUiteAJEKGWeM4qaBoFxNWbp1Y1frpotco9yFntnFxrp93IIIxpkYeRWjlW57OS7DioGS8_C6UxO2Ljhg5MOEAAcnUdY9woeoVWv1b3dTu2x0cZ0bgrCyHaKQN_sALyv0lbSB2ZSpeOpCPvvP4F9eBjo6IfL8_4mE3A4hJgediYaWt3SYjf0-ynh_3m_J5Nckm1_RU76MCat7dHVvym

Am 25.03.20 um 21:47 schrieb Krafft, John M.:
> "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
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