The right polling question on abortion
Most polls about how people view abortion ask questions about Roe vs Wade or to what extent abortion should be legal, but who really thinks or talks about abortion in those terms? Here’s how the question really should be framed:
Do you favor slaughtering unborn babies
OR
Do you favor oppressing women?
I strongly favor slaughtering unborn babies
I somewhat favor slaughtering unborn babies
I somewhat favor oppressing women
I strongly favor oppressing women
I am undecided
I do not know
That’s more like it, although “Oppressing women” doesn’t sound quite as harsh as “slaugthering unborn babies.” Suggestions, anyone?
(Sticklers for scientific methodology are sure to object to asking two questions in one, but, like, uh, whatever)
