The Importance Of How A Question Is Framed Makes A Big Difference

[Rightguide]

Look How Even Democrat Opinion Shifts On Abortion Laws When Polls Stop Using Leftist Framing​

BY: BETH WHITEHEAD
JULY 08, 2022

A new abortion poll from the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) out Wednesday illuminates how media and abortion activists are able to skew public opinion by keeping people in the dark about the practice. Once Americans understand the grisly details and what Roe v. Wade really entailed, their opinions change dramatically.

For instance, while the pro-abortion media routinely tout Roe as majority-supported, more than half of the poll respondents opposed Roe v. Wade once they learned it allowed for late-term abortions.

Fifty-three percent said they support, versus 31 percent who opposed, Roe v. Wade when it was presented to them as the keystone to recognizing abortion as a so-called “constitutional right,” which is the left’s framing of the issue. But when participants learned Roe allowed for late-term abortions, when unborn babies can feel pain, those numbers reversed and then some: 56 percent said they opposed Roe v. Wade, and only 28 percent supported it.

The trend of participants switching positions once they knew more facts continued throughout the poll. When asked if they supported or opposed late-term abortions, seventy-four percent of Republicans opposed compared to only 36 percent of Democrats. Almost half the Democrats surveyed said they support late-term abortions.

However, once participants were asked if a fetus counts as a human life when it has a heartbeat at six weeks, begins to move its eyes at 12 weeks, or can feel pain at 14 weeks, the Democrat position on late-term abortion shifted. Fifty-nine percent of respondents, including 49 percent of Democrats, now said they support abortion bans if there is an indication of life.

More here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/0...n-laws-when-polls-stop-using-leftist-framing/

Well now isn't that interesting?

 

[ll74]

Polls always are differed by how questions are framed and their results are always spun by pundits with a narrative

 

[ll74]

Polls always are differed by how questions are framed and their results are always spun by pundits with a narrative

For example...there isn't a heart at six weeks to beat

 

[zipman]

Polls always are differed by how questions are framed and their results are always spun by pundits with a narrative

For example...there isn't a heart at six weeks to beat

And most focus agree a fetus can't feel pain until 22-24 weeks.

 

[rockcasbah]

And most focus agree a fetus can't feel pain until 22-24 weeks.

Most of that data is quite old.

And German.

 

[Rightguide]

And most focus agree a fetus can't feel pain until 22-24 weeks.

Is this some new ghetto slang, just askin'.

 

[zipman]

Is this some new ghetto slang, just askin'.

Doctors. And the point stands.

 

[Rightguide]

Doctors. And the point stands.

Is "Focus" Muscogee for "Doctors?" Just askin'

 

[Chernosoth]

I expect the viability line or the definition of human life will return to something like a month after birth as medical care and government aid become rare. Babies are fragile and frequently they just die. Keeping one alive is work that many people can't do while they struggle to keep themselves alive.

 

[rockcasbah]

I expect the viability line or the definition of human life will return to something like a month after birth as medical care and government aid become rare. Babies are fragile and frequently they just die. Keeping one alive is work that many people can't do while they struggle to keep themselves alive.

Where in Mali do you live?

 

[YDB95]

But when participants learned Roe allowed for late-term abortions, when unborn babies can feel pain, those numbers reversed and then some: 56 percent said they opposed Roe v. Wade, and only 28 percent supported it.

What happened when participants learned that Roe did not provide for abortion on demand in such situations but rather simply recognized that sometimes they are medically necessary to save the woman's life, or that there is literally no evidence whatsoever that anyone has ever had an elective late-term abortion?

 

[HisArpy]

What happened when participants learned that Roe did not provide for abortion on demand in such situations but rather simply recognized that sometimes they are medically necessary to save the woman's life, or that there is literally no evidence whatsoever that anyone has ever had an elective late-term abortion?

 

[Rightguide]

Yes, I'm afraid his condition is fatal.

 

[YDB95]

You might want to change your sig-line. It's patently obvious that you do care, probably too much.

 

[HisArpy]

You might want to change your sig-line. It's patently obvious that you do care, probably too much.

Well now, isn't that insightful. Wrong, but insightful nonetheless.

 

[ll74]

It's fairly easy to recognize - when the question was presented using incorrect terms like "unborn baby" and "child" in regards to terminating a pregnancy, the responders did exactly what the pro life marketing department determined they would. When nedical terms we're used, they responded the opposite.