More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government regulation altogether.
- Professor of Political Science, Hartwick College
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender lines.
Analysis of public survey data shows that Republicans and Democrats are not too different regarding their parenthood experiences.
Most Americans surveyed did not know how pregnancies are dated or how long a trimester is – but this is especially true among some groups, like people who say they support six-week abortion bans.
For decades, there were growing numbers of Democratic and Republican women in Congress, but the number of Republican women has stalled.
Since the pandemic began, parents have had to negotiate their own workplace demands and other responsibilities with around-the-clock child care responsibilities.
Could mothers be responsible for the gender gap? Or are other factors at play?
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