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Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births. (www.propublica.org)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

100%. There are plenty of studies showing that supposed "pro-life" sentiment explains little of the left-right difference in abortion support.

A 2014 study analyzed the data of more than 7400 people and found that “perceptions of preborn humanness explained very little of right–left differences in abortion support, and the association between preborn humanness perceptions and abortion opposition was no stronger for those on the political right (vs. left).”4 And a 2022 poll by Pew also found that a third of Americans simultaneously believe that a fetus is a person with rights and that the decision to abort should be up to the woman. This means that the majority of people who believe that life starts at conception (about 59%) still believe that women should have the right to an abortion.10

By contrast, a 2017 study found that sexism accounted for 30% to 70% of the left-right difference in abortion stance even after controlling for other relevant variables.5 An earlier study found that authoritarianism had a significant correlation with an anti-abortion position and aggression towards women,6 and a 2019 study found that right-wing authoritarianism had a significant correlation with anti-abortion stigma both before and after controlling for other variables.7

Perhaps unsurprisingly states that restrict abortions also have worse health outcomes for women and children.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That sounds right, but I wonder how they measured things like sexiam and authoritarianism. If it's measurable, I would be interested to see how it corresponds with other political positions.