My wife believes exactly the same as the OP, and she is most definitely speaking from that perspective. :)

This isn't a gendered issue, it's a worldview one. There's a very small skew towards males preferring it be illegal, but it's not enough to write off all opposition as male:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opini...

> There's a very small skew towards males preferring it be illegal

Women favor legality by +28 percentage points

Men favor legality by +17 percentage points

That's...not a particularly small gender skew.

That's not how to read these numbers. Your way of counting doubles the actual gender gap.

63 percent of women say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.

58 percent of men say abortion should be legal in all/most cases.

That's an ~5 percentage point gender gap, not a 10 percentage point gap.

It's a 11 percentage point margin shift, and that is the correct way to view it. While neutral is a small position on this issue because it has high salience and is polarizing, neutral is a valid choice (which is also why the difference in “should be legal” is not identical to the difference in “should be illegal”.)

Ah, that's a fair approach.

I was thinking of it this way: Hallucinaut assumed that armitron was male, because a female would never make that argument. However, 46% of people who believe that abortion should be illegal in almost all cases are female, which makes Hallucinaut's assumption very bad.

Your approach is valid in other contexts, but I don't think it's the most relevant to the question I was addressing.

Fetus literally means unborn baby. The only difference between a fetus and a baby 10 minutes before birth is position in space (one’s in a womb). Would you support abortion 10 minutes before birth? A day? A week? At what point are you just murdering a baby?

And development, which you seem to skip over. Most people draw the line at third trimester, which is generally when a fetus is viable outside the body.

A fetus in the first or second trimester isn't capable of life outside the mother's womb. A vanishingly small percentage of people are even considering late-term abortions, but that's what you seem to be fixated on in all these threads.

I “fixate” on that question because that’s the argument everyone is making: that any interference in abortion is unjust. The reality is (as you seem to agree) is that in some instances there’s little difference from baby murder - hence why restrictions on abortion can be just