Discussion with James Carville: things don't look great

[Hekate]

40. Part of it is how you frame the questions if you are polling. By splitting "democracy" & "abortion"

…. you end up splitting the way the respondent thinks about their answers. By splitting “health care” and “abortion” you do the same.

When people who do the polls think abortion is a “women’s issue” they frame their questions that way. And lo and behold, the answers reflect that.

What do I think about abortion? I now understand it as part of the continuum of women’s health care. Not every woman will need one, but it needs to be there. The horror stories are mounting daily of what happens when there’s no exceptions.

So that checks the box of “health care.”

I think outlawing abortion takes away my agency over my own body, and that of 51% of the population. Allowing state legislatures to put bounties on women, Uber drivers, doctors, clinics, nurses — is that or is that not a civil liberties issue?

So that checks the box of “democracy.”

Can my husband and I afford another child? It is dawning on women that the same people who want to outlaw abortion also want to outlaw contraception.

So that checks the box of “economy.”

I think the pollsters are wrong. I think the people who dismiss women are wrong. I think the pundits on tv are wrong. — I think the way they frame the issues are wrong.