Tarsonis wrote:Senkaku wrote:...what I'm reading here is that 88% of women would be against a complete ban? Try all you like to fudge the numbers, but polling consistently shows huge majorities of Americans wanted to keep Roe around and don't want to ban abortion.
nevermind the fact anybody's desire to keep roe has fuck all to do with whether roe should be kept, you're the one fudging numbers.
What numbers am I fudging? "Legal under some circumstances" is a long way of saying "legal"-- the circumstances each respondent thinks are appropriate are presumably too varied to be captured by the poll, so we're looking at a plurality saying legal under any circumstances, and almost everyone else, except for a small group of hardliners, saying they think it shouldn't be banned even if they support some program of restriction. Even if you say three quarters of that middle 45% have such restrictive views that they basically want it banned (which you certainly haven't quantified), that still leaves you with a sizable majority in favor of keeping it legal. I have no idea how you could interpret these numbers as the country being divided on whether or not to ban abortion, much less as women broadly supporting your position.
As for whether the will of the people should have anything to do with the laws they're governed by, I think you and I have some irreconcilable differences of the heart on that matter.