{"id":185282,"date":"2018-07-23T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=185282"},"modified":"2018-07-22T23:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:27:30","slug":"democratic-strategist-women-less-pro-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/democratic-strategist-women-less-pro-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic strategist shock claim: Women are less pro-choice than men"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recent Gallup polling<\/a> indicates that the percentage of women who favor unrestricted abortion is slightly higher than men, yet an experienced Democratic pollster admitted to The Hill TV that she has found the opposite to be true.<\/p>\n

Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research, is described<\/a> as “one of the Democratic Party’s leading political strategists, serving as tactician and senior advisor to the national party committees, dozens of Democratic incumbents, and challengers at all levels of the electoral process.” She’s worked for the Democratic National Committee, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, EMILY’s List, and others.<\/p>\n

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Celinda Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

Just days prior to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee announcement, Lake appeared<\/a> on Hill TV’s “What America’s Thinking,” where she told host Joe Concha, “Women are less likely to be pro-choice….”<\/p>\n

Concha interrupted, saying, “I have no idea what you are talking about. Really?”<\/p>\n

Lake replied, “Women are more religious… than men. And so women are actually slightly less pro-choice than men.”<\/p>\n

Regarding the (at the time) impending selection of a Supreme Court nominee, Lake noted that “people will… assume a female nominee is going to be more reasonable. And also can personally relate to the ambivalence and the complexity” of abortion. But Lake was saying that women aren’t necessarily as pro-choice as the media makes them out to be.<\/p>\n

In referring to a “female nominee,” Lake was likely referring to pro-life Judge\u00a0Amy Coney Barrett, who, although not Trump’s nominee, remains on a short list of possible Supreme Court picks.<\/p>\n

Polls rarely, if ever, tell the whole story on things like abortion;\u00a0they can only\u00a0give a mere snapshot<\/a> response to a craftily worded short question on a particular subject. In opposition to the previously mentioned Gallup poll, a different poll\u00a0has shown<\/a> that a majority of women support significant restrictions on abortion, desiring to limit it to cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother. Perhaps Celinda Lake, in her work with pro-abortion organizations, has witnessed that same sentiment.<\/p>\n

Due to media bias, most Americans have never been shown what an abortion is, how it is committed, or how it harms women — and this, of course, has a bearing on the polls. Many people haven’t even been shown the reality of fetal development:<\/p>\n