Please tell me whether or not you think it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtaina legal abortion if:The woman wants it for any reason?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Then I combined years to produce four decades. 1977-1980 = 70s, 1981-1990 = 80s, 1991-2000 = 90s, and 2001-2008 = 00s. I compared this with the POLVIEWS variable, which goes from extremely liberal to extremely conservative. I constrained the sample to whites to control somewhat for population confounds. Below are the results by decade in various formats.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n Raw data, % who say “yes” to abortion for any reason<\/strong>:<\/p>\n As you can see, the gap between extremes went from 30 points in the 70s to 50 points in the 00s.<\/p>\n Some comments below made me want to look at attitudes toward abortion in the USA by ideology over the decades. I know that political party polarization on social issues has played out mostly over the past 20 years or, but I assumed that this was less evident in ideology (mostly, liberal Republicans became Democrats and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,39,281,56,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-data","category-data-analysis","category-gss","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34739,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions\/34739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"abb1\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/12\/abb1.png\" "\\"abb1\\"")
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\n Decade<\/strong><\/td>\n Extreme Liberal<\/strong><\/td>\n Liberal<\/strong><\/td>\n Slightly Liberal<\/strong><\/td>\n Moderate<\/strong><\/td>\n Slightly Conservative<\/strong><\/td>\n Conservative<\/strong><\/td>\n Extremely Conservative<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1970s<\/td>\n 62<\/td>\n 49<\/td>\n 42<\/td>\n 34<\/td>\n 36<\/td>\n 33<\/td>\n 31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1980s<\/td>\n 66<\/td>\n 56<\/td>\n 49<\/td>\n 38<\/td>\n 38<\/td>\n 30<\/td>\n 19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1990s<\/td>\n 72<\/td>\n 66<\/td>\n 59<\/td>\n 43<\/td>\n 40<\/td>\n 26<\/td>\n 22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2000s<\/td>\n 79<\/td>\n 69<\/td>\n 55<\/td>\n 42<\/td>\n 36<\/td>\n 21<\/td>\n 26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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