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 cou…

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.

  • orclev@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    Weird, it’s almost like electing the pussy grabber in chief turned women off from the Republican party. Strange how that happened. There’s also the whole Roe vs. Wade thing literally killing women.

        • Econgrad@lemmings.world
          0·
          8 months ago

          There should be exceptions for genuine medical life-threatening reasons for abortion. But that represents less than 1% of all abortions.

          • suigenerix@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 months ago

            They’re separate arguments from your original claim that RvW is not life threatening.

            And while risk of death is fortunately relatively low in the US, it’s only one of the many negative consequences of the repeal.

            Many women survive the birth only to be inflicted with any one of a range of physical medical issues, including life long disability and chronic pain.

            There’s also deep mental issues that arise.

            Likewise, there are the potential negative health concerns for the baby to consider.

            On top of that, there’s all the many socio-economic problems.

            I’m not saying there are easy answers to all this, but I’m not minimizing the issues either.

      • orclev@lemmy.world
        0·
        8 months ago

        A friend of mine was hospitalized due to a pregnancy complication. Fortunately we live in a state where abortion is still legal so they were able to perform an emergency abortion and save her life. She was still hospitalized for a week. If we lived in one of several states where it’s not legal she would have died, no question. The doctor literally told her so. So no, it’s not hyperbole, it has happened, is happening, and will continue to happen as long as abortions are illegal.

        • Econgrad@lemmings.world
          0·
          8 months ago

          There should always be exceptions for legitimate health issues or when rape or incest result in pregnancy. But that represents 15% or so of all abortions. Most people who are pro-life agree that there should be exceptions for these things. There’s only a very small amount of people that are hardcore fanatics who reject abortion for any reason whatsoever, they’re just very very loud.

          • eskimofry@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 months ago

            My problem with pro-lifers is you’re all just content to pretend to be the mouth-piece for babies because somehow you think you know better than the person who is carrying said baby.

            Conservatives’ advocacy for preserving life rings hollow when it’s clear they will actively oppose policies beyond birth, like free lunch programs for kids in schools, debt forgiveness for students, and proper sex education with use of contraceptives.

            It’s clear the real goal is to birth future laborers and christian missionaries. Your entire position on pro-life is actually a desperate attempt to preserve a dying religion. You’re devoid of the kindness and love taught by your own God.

            I have no respect for people who pretend to care about preserving life.

            First respect women, then you can respect their fetus: https://midwest.social/post/8438167

          • orclev@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 months ago

            It doesn’t matter if there should be exceptions because the reality is that in many states today there are no exceptions. Furthermore questions about who decides what constitutes a “legitimate health issue” or not make many doctors in states where there are exceptions hesitant to perform abortions even in cases where they believe it’s in the patients best interest out of fear that it would be deemed not medically necessary after the fact. Even in cases where doctors know a pregnancy is non-viable they delay aborting it until the mother is in critical condition just so that there’s no question that it was an emergency.

      • acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world
        0·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, and what do you call a high risk pregnancy that would normally have ended in abortion? Now women are forced to carry the pregnancy (viable or otherwise) to term putting their health and lives at risk.

        Educate yourself on what’s going on before spouting nonsense.

          • Bangs42@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 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
              01·
              8 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.

                • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  8 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
                  01·
                  8 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.mlEnglish
                    2·
                    8 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?