Abortion emerges as most important election issue for young women, poll finds

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Abortion has emerged as the most important issue in the November election for women under 30, according to a survey by KFF -- a notable change since late spring, before Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race.

Nearly four in 10 women under 30 surveyed in September and early October told pollsters that abortion is the most important issue to their vote. Just 20% named abortion as their top issue when KFF conducted a similar survey in late May and early June.

The new survey found other shifts among women voters that stand to benefit Harris, including an increase of 24 percentage points in the number of women who said they were satisfied with their choice of candidates and a 19-point increase in the number who said they were more motivated to vote than in previous presidential elections.

The changes suggest a significant setback among women in just a few months for former President Donald Trump.



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Please please please ...... ALL of these pissed off people need to VOTE. The only way we're going to be finished once and for all with trumpism is for him to lose in a landslide, otherwise for the next four years we'll be hearing how the election was stolen once again.

[4catsmom]

1. Guess what

it's a very important issue for older women too. we worry about the girls in our lives

[jfz9580m]

4. Besides you can get knocked up

Well into your forties or more rarely fifties, since the average age of menopause is 51 in the United States.

You can in theory get knocked up as long as you are menstruating.

People could potentially be less careful about birth control during perimenopause. Those are often the pregnancies women wish to terminate.

[NickB79]

12. As the father of a teenage girl, it's very important to me as well

But then again, I love her dearly. I I don't view her as property or breeding stock to be sold off like some of these Handmaid's Tale bastards.

[travelingthrulife]

17. Tis true. It's about the stability of families and how that impacts our economy too.

It is about the creation of unnecessary poverty. Families forced into poverty when they know that 4th child will sink them but can do nothing about it. It is about thousands of children being birthed into our child foster care system and all the misery that entails. It is about the tragedy and pain of bringing severely damaged fetuses to term for a lifetime of pain and suffering for all involved.

Seems to be so that we "suffer" as God intended us to do?

[LearnedHand]

2. Omg ya think?

They are just now noticing? After two years of fury and abortion rights winning every time they've been on the ballot? I'm so sick of dishonest reporting like this.

[booksenkatz]

3. Just 4 in 10?

Soooo the other 6 in 10 get their emergency reproductive healthcare from where, fairies? If you don't have ownership of your body, you have NOTHING and you are not free. If the government owns your uterus, it means the government owns all of your organs to use as it sees fit. Cheney may need a new heart soon, you know. Melania needs a new kidney.
VOTE BLUE for your economic, physical, and mental health.

[Polybius]

13. It's not that the 6 in 10 don't care or think it's important

It's just that it's not their number 1 most important issue. Perhaps it's Gaza, the economy, or gun-control. Abortion can be a solid #2.

[booksenkatz]

15. Interesting

Without bodily autonomy, a person is not free. You have to put on your own oxygen mask before you can assist others. And if TSF gets back into the White House, they'll be forced to have untold numbers of children, which definitely impacts one's personal economy, and the care of whom impacts one's ability to have the time to protest. Gaza won't matter anyway, because under a dictatorship, all protesting is silenced. Wish more people could see the bigger picture here.

[Polybius]

18. You can certainly make a case that the environment is an even more important issue

But who are we to say what's most important? Every person has a different "most important issue" that's unique to them. Mine has always been the Supreme Court.

I don't know too many people under 25, so I asked some friend's kids and coworkers what their most important issue was:

Gaby, 20: Gaza, not voting
Samantha, 19: "I dunno" was her answer, not voting
Brianna: 20-something: Abortion, voting for Harris
CJ, :15: Video games, ineligible to vote until 2027

I am working tomorrow with a few under 25, this has got me curious. So far, no Trump votes at all, and I'm in a Red area.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. And male candidates for office like Bernie Moreno in Ohio

Continue to disparage those who claim to be one-issue voters on abortion. He recently spoke to a crowd of older women and told them it “shouldn’t be an issue for you if you’re over 50.”

These men have no idea the life threatening conditions that can develop from a pregnancy, my guess is they don’t want to hear about it. No way should these dimwitted willfully ignorant males be making law over something they know nothing about!

[valleyrogue]

10. It's okay if the dwindling number of the antiabortion nutters use this issue as one-issue.

For everybody else, the media has to talk it down despite women all over the country being furious over Dobbs.

[pfitz59]

6. Important to men

I have women in my life at risk

[BaronChocula]

7. Or women's healthcare

in other words.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Yet we've been told over and over since Dobbs that it is not a "kitchen table issue". Roevember is coming.

[booksenkatz]

16. Huge kitchen table issue

Having a child or not is one of the biggest economic decisions a person will ever make. And they want that decision removed from you. Gestational slavery should be the #1 issue for everyone, male or female. It impacts men's wallets too, not just women's.

[valleyrogue]

9. The media keep trying to talk this issue down, but the evidence is overwhelming

that this is THE issue among women voters of all ages, and why Trump is losing bigly with women.

[Hekate]

11. Strange how the prospect of dying catches women's attention. Male politicians who think ...

…a pregnancy, any pregnancy, is an “inconvenience” are blithering idiots. I have zero patience for their willful ignorance and their stone-heartedness when women tell them what reality is.

[slightlv]

14. I don't believe this can be accurate.

For one, I have to believe that more than 4 out of 10 women consider this of prime importance. They do have brains, and can extrapolate what other rights will be stripped from them, quickly, if they don't make it important to them. AND they have mothers and maybe even grandmothers still alive to tell them what the "good old days" were REALLY like.

Second, how many women over 30 did they poll? Did they just forget they exist? Or decide their opinions weren't worth polling? My sister was an "oops" baby. Older women who get pregnant also have harder pregnancies; more likely to have complications. I'm the oldest in my family, and I weighed 4 pounds, Mom's pregnancy complicated by high blood pressure. I was one of a set of fraternal twins. My twin (a male) didn't make it, unfortunately. My brother, 3 years later, weighed nearly 10 pounds and labor went on forever, according to Mom. More than 10 years later, Mom's pregnant again... "oops"... her period had been so spotty, she didn't think she could get pregnant!

Third, we "older" women have plenty of girls and women in our lives that we love and adore. We fight now... as we fought back in the 60's and 70's, for them, just as much as for our own health care. Think we're not affected ourselves? Think again. Drugs taken off the markets can be drugs we take for autoimmune diseases, or other chronic conditions. I'd have never made it thru perimenopause without hormone help. Those would definitely be nonstarters! We'd be going back to the really old days when women passed around the Black Cohosh, or other herbs... which, in itself, is NOT a bad thing... but it doesn't always work for everyone. At least it kept the women in charge of helping other women.

Just like any poll, this one was created to poll a certain subset of people that could make R's look good... or women look dumb. I resent it!

[TBF]

19. Despite what certain man-splainers in this thread & others think -

this is issue #1 for many.

NOTHING is more important to me than bodily autonomy & it is the sole reason I am voting. I am no fan of capitalism, but I am a woman in a country where men have been solely in charge for far too long. I am in my late 50's, married, 2 older kids. Childbirth is no longer an immediate problem for me, but this affects pretty much everyone given how we aren't even jailing the rapists anymore - prime example #1 - Trump himself is not only out and walking around, but also able to run for office.

Let's summarize - a rapist and convicted felon, allowed to run for office after inciting an insurrection, and stacking the court to take away a woman's right to be in charge of her own body. Does this concern you as a woman? If it does not, with all due respect, you need your head examined.