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Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by JohnTHaller on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:31PM (#29744207)
> afaik more women are opposed to abortion than men, so giving women the right the vote makes it less likely that abortion is legalized

A single Google search would tell you that's entirely wrong: https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.a...

Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by kkjjkgjjgg on Friday December 31, 2021 @04:36AM (#29746364)
"Entirely Wrong" - are you looking at the same chart? According to the chart, most of the time the "entirely illegal" numbers are higher for women than for men. And that is just one poll. A single Google search also produces results like this, which claims much larger differences: https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2014/a...

"Other polls have appeared since that article, and they show the same thing. A 2013 YouGov poll on behalf of the University of Lancaster found 26% of men supporting a reduction or ban, versus 43% of women."

Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by JohnTHaller on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:20PM (#29750119)
According to the article I linked in a Gallup poll earlier in 2021, 81% of women support abortion (36% under all conditions, 45% under some) and 79% of men support abortion (29% under all conditions, 50% under some). 52% of women consider themselves pro-life and 5% are unsure. 45% of men consider themselves pro-life and 5% are unsure.

You linked to an article from 2014 about surveys from 2011.

Re:Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebast... by kkjjkgjjgg on Friday December 31, 2021 @09:01PM (#29754696)
The numbers from the Guardian article are drastically different from the ones by Gallup, and even Gallup has women in the "lead" for most years. Mostly the very recent years in Gallup have slightly less women than men saying it should be completely illegal. So I don't think the Gallup source settles it.