Kaiser Poll Reveals Women See Assault on Reproductive Health

A new poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation has revealed that 31 percent of women believe that there is currently a “wide-scale effort to limit women’s reproductive health choices and services, such as abortion, family planning, and contraception.” Forty-five percent of female respondents stated that they believe that there are “some groups that would like to limit women’s reproductive health choices and services, but it is not a wide-spread effort.” Male respondents proved that they have been paying attention, too: 25 percent responded that they believe there is a “wide-spread effort” and 42 percent said there are some groups, but not a wide-spread effort. The impact of women’s health or other women’s issues on the upcoming presidential election appears limited, however; the vast majority (60 percent) of registered female voters said they’d like to hear more from the presidential candidates about the economy and jobs, while only five percent wanted to hear more about women’s issues. When it comes to who they trust to do a better job of looking out for women’s interests, the majority of respondents chose Barack Obama over Mitt Romney (59 percent versus 25 percent for women, and 51 percent versus 34 percent for men).

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