{"id":38,"date":"2009-05-16T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T14:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:30:16","slug":"how-accurate-are-abortion-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"How accurate are abortion polls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/images\/abortion2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good analysis of purported surveys by Gallop &amp; Pew showing public sentiment for abortion has shifted away from a woman&#8217;s right to choose &#8212; from Ed Kilgore at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/\" target=\"blank\"><strong>fivethirtyeight.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The money quote: [snip] <em>&#8216;abstract hostility towards abortion may well disguise a more sympathetic attitude when it comes to actual women making actual decisions about a pregnancy. To put it another way, who cares if there&#8217;s a shift towards self-reported &#8220;pro-life&#8221; sentiments, if consistent majorities basically approve of the constitutional and legal status quo?&#8217;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read Ed Kilgore&#8217;s comments. They are spot on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good analysis of purported surveys by Gallop &amp; Pew showing public sentiment for abortion has shifted away from a woman&#8217;s right to choose &#8212; from Ed Kilgore at fivethirtyeight.com The money quote: [snip] &#8216;abstract hostility towards abortion may well disguise a more sympathetic attitude when it comes to actual women making actual decisions about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[48,47,49],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-science","tag-abortion","tag-status-quo","tag-womans-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}