Joanna Henderson
3 min readNov 16, 2024

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Sorry, but what you wrote doesn’t make any sense, neither logical not scientific. Women who have sex within marriage won’t necessarily want to proceed with birth, and especially considering the abortion ban and DT getting re-elected, less and less women would be inclined to date, get married and have sex. But even those who do get married or already married aren’t protected from complications and possible death during birth. So why would pro-life women risk that? They don’t need to have sex with their husbands even if they are married. You’re completely correct on how many choices pro-life women have, and considering the draconian laws, some will surely decide not to have sex at all.

But let’s move to the scientific part.

1. Your hypothesis that 45% of women who voted for Trump are pro-life is utterly incorrect. According to the most recent statistics, https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx , if you look at the legality of abortion, only 12% of women support a total abortion ban, which is down from 24% since 2019, when DT started his first presidential campaign. During that period, the percentage of women who supported abortion under any circumstances went up from 24% in 2019 to 42% in 2024. Essentially, 88% of American women support abortion, either totally or at least under certain circumstances. Meaning, out of the 45% women who voted for DT, at least 33% still support abortion in one way or another, whether it’s within a certain timeline or for a horrible reason such as rape, incest, or for survival during birth.

2. A good number of these 88% women who support abortion live in 13 states that imposed a total abortion ban. If you do the math, a total of approximately 57 million women reside in those 13 states. That is 33.5% of all the women in the US (source: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jan/30/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-is-right-1-in-3-women-of-reproductiv/ ). You see how there is a disconnect between 12% of women who support a total abortion ban, while 33.5% reside in the states that banned those, which are all red states? So, if you think that republican women are pro-life, that’s majorly incorrect. More of them are pro-life, but many are not. And this number is changing every year towards being more pro-choice.

3. If you go back to the first chart, you’ll see that only 11% of American men support a total abortion men, which is in line with 12% of women who do. However, while 42% of women want to see abortion legal under any circumstances, only 28% of men which the same way. And while 42% of women believe that abortion should be allowed only under certain circumstances, 58% of men believe that. And while 89% of men are essentially pro-choice, men clearly display more conservative views compared to women. This is there the difference is.

4. Even if you look at the self-ID chart, when presented with a pro-life vs pro-choice identification, as in a radical one, 63% of women called themselves as pro-choice, while only 45% of men did. This is another disconnect, and this gap will get even wider, because in 2019, only 43% of women identified as pro-choice, so this number is up by 20%.

5. Your hypothetical views about women dying due to abortions is categorically wrong. Do you know the mortality rate during birth? 22.3 per 100,000 birth ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2022/maternal-mortality-rates-2022.htm#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20817%20women%20died,(Figure%201%20and%20Table). ). But do you know the mortality rate for abortion? 0.45 death per 100,000 birth ( https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/25/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20the%20last%20year%20for%20which%20the%20CDC%20has,deaths%20all%20followed%20legal%20abortions.) ). As such, your argument is incorrect and has no basis. Death during abortion is pretty much non-existent. If you research the abortion types, you’ll be surprised how many are done via an abortion pill, especially in fully developed counties.

6. The interesting thing is, if you were to use statistics and estimate the number of married republican women who have had abortions, it’s around 2.83 million. Out of those, more than a half had an abortion while already having children. As such, being republican, married or even having kids doesn’t stop women from getting abortion. So, your hypothesis on women not having sex outside of marriage is likely wrong too. But now that we’ve looked at stats, it’s clear that there are many more American men who are against abortion in one way or another. Seems like those men should get ready for a potential of being celibate for ages, if women do decide to stop having sex with men altogether.

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Joanna Henderson
Joanna Henderson

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Canadian. Mental health activist. Banker and financier who drinks too much coffee. Pursuing happiness and sharing my thoughts with others.

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