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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years, but women are becoming even more liberal, according to Gallup.

The survey data, released Wednesday, shows that while the country remains largely center-right, the percentage of those identifying as or leaning liberal has increased over the past three decades, and is now just 1 percent under it’s all-time high.

Roughly 36 percent of adults identify as conservative, 25 percent as liberal and the rest identify as either moderate or unsure, according to the poll.

When broken down by gender ideology, women in the youngest and oldest age groups said they were more likely to identify as liberal.

Women ages 18-29 were 40 percent more likely to be liberal in 2023, a slight decrease from 41 percent in 2022 and 44 percent in 2020, but still higher than the 30 percent in 2013. Those ages 65 and older were 25 percent more likely to identify as liberal — a slight increase from the 21 percent reported in 2013.

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[-] Econgrad@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

There should be exceptions for when the mother's health is at risk.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 41 points 11 months ago

Except there isn't, therefore, the repeal of Roe v Wade is, literally, killing women.

[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

There are in many states.

And yet, doctors are still concerned because shit is too vague, so they just... don't do them for any reason.

[-] Econgrad@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's on the doctors and I think it's political in nature rather than as you described. I'm skeptical that this actually happens frequently.

[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

That's fine, but the facts don't really care about your feelings.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

It's almost like this was a healthcare decision. That should have been left between doctors and their patients. Not a bunch of balding fascists.

[-] Econgrad@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm sorry but that's in no way an objective source. On this particular social issue, that's like citing Fox News. I'll take some local news website or something that lists that sources or best of all the scientific study on the reluctance of doctors to perform abortions.

But I will not accept an NPR editorial on abortion as evidence.

Also that slogan is not as pithy as you think. Lol. Kind of makes you sound like a wine mom.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

I’ll take some local news website or something that lists that sources

In Missouri, hospital doctors told a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks that "current Missouri law supersedes our medical judgment" and so she could not receive an abortion procedure even though she was at risk of infection, according to a report in the Springfield News-Leader.

Oh wow, what's this? Is the NPR article linking sources, and to a local news website no less? Wild. But if you won't accept an NPR article, would you accept an interview on PBS?

Jamila Perritt, President & CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health: It's important that we understand that abortion is just the tip of the iceberg. You're absolutely right reproductive health across the board is going to be impacted in a really devastating way. We know for folks that are seeking abortion care, the inability to obtain that care results in long-term economic, social, emotional outcomes that are negative as compared with those who have been able to obtain that care.

Or a guardian article (linking a study by the New England Journal of Medicine)?

Despite a carve-out for medical emergencies, the law endangered the lives of high-risk pregnant patients, according to Texas researchers documenting its consequences in a recent New England Journal of Medicine study. Some patients needed to be “at death’s door” to receive pregnancy termination under the law, the paper found, underscoring how abortion bans create dangerous repercussions for complicated pregnancies.

Or a CNN article citing a study published in the American Journal of Gynecology?

But when five of its doctors published a study – one of the first of its kind – about the effect of abortion bans in real life, the medical center didn’t issue a news release. The research, published in the American Journal of Gynecology, found that at two Texas hospitals, the abortion bans were “associated with significant maternal morbidity.”

Or a Texas Tribune article?

Meanwhile, despite exceptions to the law, the number of monthly abortions in Texas has dropped into the low single digits. Women are nearly dying from pregnancy complications, or actually dying after having to travel out-of-state for abortions, or facing million-dollar lawsuits for helping friends acquire abortion medication. An unknown number are having babies they never planned for.

Or a Fox News article?

According to the lawsuit, one of the doctors, Damla Karsan, "has seen that physicians in Texas are even afraid to speak out publicly about this issue for fear of retaliation" and has witnessed how "widespread fear and confusion regarding the scope of Texas’s abortion bans has chilled the provision of necessary obstetric care, including abortion care."

Or a second Fox News article?

Doctors told Cox that if the baby's heartbeat were to stop, inducing labor would carry a risk of a uterine rupture because of her prior cesareans, and that another C-section at full term would would endanger her ability to carry another child.

"It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye to my baby, but when. I’m trying to do what is best for my baby and myself, but the state of Texas is making us both suffer," Cox said in a statement.

In July, several Texas women gave emotional testimony about carrying babies they knew would not survive and doctors unable to offer abortions despite their spiraling conditions. A judge later ruled that Texas’ ban was too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications, but that decision was swiftly put on hold after the state appealed.

Does it matter what the source is? Do you even care?

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Jesus Christ that was incredibly well cited. That's a top tier comment if I've ever seen one, amazing work.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

If you just search "doctor roe v wade abortion", most of these articles are the results on the first page. Econgrad is being disingenuous about what sources they're willing to accept, so I just googled it for them in way fewer words than it took to lie about why they wouldn't take the NPR article.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

Why won’t you accept an NPR article?

Follow-up: what is your understanding of the definition of the word “editorial”?

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

So you want to legislate but don't want any responsibility for your legislation? Why would anybody give a shit about what you think?

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is happening constantly. These laws don't define what they mean when they say the mother's life is at risk, so doctors wait until women are on death's doorstep because otherwise they can be charged with a crime.

Pro-lifers don't actually think about the consequences of their vague ass laws. Women ARE dying because of the repeal of RvW and it isn't their fault, or the doctors', it's the climate of fear that was intentionally created by the extremists who support this bullshit.

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Sure you waved your fingers so it magically happened so. Fuck reality right?

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