Archive for the ‘Opinion polls’ Category

Hidden Persuaders

That’s the title of a recent article by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/hidden-persuaders_604174.html?nopager=1 The article’s subtitle is “The unheralded gains of  the pro-life movement.” Barnes describes a series of positive developments: the impact of sonograms, the increasing pro-life sentiment among young people, the rapid increase in pregnancy care centers, etc. At the end of [...]

Are women legislators more liberal on abortion?

The Culture Wars Meet State Politics: Gender, Representation and Abortion Policy provides an interesting analysis of the fact that the number of women in a state legislature increases the likelihood that a state will have more liberal abortion policies. The authors find a difference in the manner in which women candidates are recruited in the [...]

American Preference for Boys

A new Gallup poll asked a random sample of 1,020 American adults whether they’d prefer to have a girl or a boy if they could only chose one. Forty percent said they prefer a boy, 28 percent said they would want a girl, and the rest didn’t mind either way or weren’t sure.  This survey is [...]

Encouraging Gallup Survey on Abortion

Here is a National Right to Life News story on an encouraging Gallup poll on attitudes on abortion.  http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2011/05/gallup-survey-finds-opposition-to-most-abortions-belief-that-abortion-is-morally-wrong/ Here is Wesley Smith’s comment on the survey. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/05/23/americans-becoming-much-more-anti-abortion/ Richard M.