Chart: Public Opinion on Abortion & Rape
By Kymberly Bays on 08/22/2012 in abortion, evangelicals, health care, public opinion, rape, Todd Akin, war on women, women's rights with 2 CommentsRead Time: 1 - 2 minutes
The Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan posted this chart from Discovery Magazine today, breaking down public opinion on abortion in the case of rape.
Razib Khan writes:
The GSS has a handy variable, ABRAPE, which asks respondents about the possibility of abortion if a woman gets pregnant as a result of rape (let’s stipulate that it’s possible to get pregnant as a result of rape!). I also limited the sample to the year 2000 and later, and non-Hispanic whites (to clear out confounds). Demographic breakdowns below….
Credit: Razib Khan/Discovery Magazine
What do you think of the chart? Anything surprising or unexpected?
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Dan Richards
08.22.2012
@danrich
I was raised as a Christian, even though I cannot say I ever truely was one. Always had issues about the faith.
But with that said, until I heard the left spouting about how the Right and the Christians opposed this in cases of rape and incest, I had never heard any Christian say it, but instead used it as a possible reality, and an accepted one. Now after I started hearing the left say this, was also about the time I started to meet the militant Christians and the Extremest. And they I had hear spoke about things that no other Christians I had ever heard say, and many of them the most outlandish things. I honestly believe that when they do these studies, and get such results the pollsters look for the extremists and militant Christians, because it will give them their desired outcome. I have never talked to anyone on either side that had a level mind, that would oppose the possibility of an abortion for rape that turned into a pregnancy. Nor would they oppose using abortion for cases of incest on a child. It is just when Abortion is used as an after the fact contraceptive that people have a problem with it.
not_true
10.29.2012
Dan, I’m not sure what you’re talking about. The graph shows that not one sociodemographic category breaks the 50% mark in opposing abortion in cases of rape (which means that a minority in every one of these diverse groups opposes abortion in such cases). This isn’t showing extremism, it’s showing moderatism