Are Pro-Lifers Just a Bunch of Grumpy Old Men?
There are still enormous myths about pro-lifers. For years, the pro-life movement has been portrayed as a bunch of old men trying to tell women what to do, but recent polls show that, if anything, women are more pro-life than are men. The January 16, 1998, New York Times article releasing the results of its latest survey stated quite directly, “Neither age nor a person’s sex appeared to have an effect on people’s current views on abortion.” The AP’s January 20, 1998, account of its own poll offered a similar observation, saying, “Race and gender were not significant factors in determining opinion about abortion.” If there is a “gender gap,” polls show that it is women, not men, who are more likely to oppose abortion! In the 1998 Wirthlin poll conducted for the Family Research Council (FRC), women consistently expressed a more pro-life position (61% willing either to prohibit abortion in all circumstances, to allow abortion only to save the life of the mother, or to allow abortion only
