Male U.S. Representatives With Daughters More Likely To Vote In Favor Of Abortion, Report Says

Women's Health/OBGYN News ^ | 13 Feb 2006

[presidio9]

Male U.S. representatives with daughters are more likely to vote in favor of abortion rights and "more liberally on a range of women's issues" than male representatives without daughters, according to a working paper published this month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Washington Post reports. Ebonya Washington of Yale University examined the 105th Congress members' familial compositions and the National Organization for Women's ratings of its male members. The ratings, which are based on members' votes on 20 women's issues, range from zero -- which means they consistently vote against NOW's position -- to 100 -- which signifies consistently voting with NOW's position. Washington found that a male representative was more likely to vote with NOW's position on women's issues, especially reproductive rights, if he had daughters. Specifically, the report says that "each daughter is associated with an increase of nearly three points" on NOW's rating scale. The report adds that the association between voting records and daughters superseded any party affiliation. There were not enough female representatives in the 105th Congress to draw any conclusions about their voting habits with respect to family composition, the report says (Morin, Washington Post, 2/8).

[funkywbr]

Why the BASTARDS!~}

[Restorer]

All I know is that if I voted for abortion my two daughters would perform a very late-term abortion on me.

[floridavoter2]

Goes to show how much male politicians know about women.

[L98Fiero]

Study reveals more Democrat males than Republicans in Congress have daughters.

[presidio9]

I'm pretty sure Medical News Today is not a blog. Would you prefer the Washinton Post article?

[isrul]

Why is this? Do they think of their daughters as horse bangin' skanks?

[presidio9]

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[digger48]

Good thing I taught my kids to be, and they still are, anti-abortion

[Coleus]

with daughters are more likely to vote in favor of abortion rights


with daughters are more likely to vote in favor of depression, suicide, infertility, murder, infanticide, breast cancer and killing off the next generation possibly their own grandchildren.

[jwalsh07]

My wife, my daughters and I are all pro life, period. My granddaughters, the oldest being 6, have all been to the March for Life. We don't fit this bill but then again none of us are Congresscritters. Thankfully.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Well, I have a daughter, although she won't be born until June, and I can guarantee you that neither her nor my wife would be very happy if I was a pro-abortion congressman.

I would be willing to wager that those pro-aborts reached the supposed conclusion that congressmen with daughters were more likely to vote pro-abortion without the benefit of an adequate statistical analysis that adjusted for variables such as how liberal the congressman's district is. And why the heck did they use statistics from 1997-1998?

[Clintonfatigued]

I wouldn't be surprised if the people responsible for this report reached this conclusion before they actually conducted the survey.

[scrabblehack]

Hmmm..yes, it does...what's that about the birth rate being higher in the conservative (red) states? The pro-abort crowd aborting their own?

How was the data collected? Is it possible that some legislators have daughters but do not publicize that fact?

[George from New England]

These pro-abortion politicians think that what they don't know won't hurt them.

They enable all teens in these states to commit murder and make it so they (the parents) don't/won't/can't have any knowledge.

I do believe that this action will insure their eternal damnation at the pearly gates.

[Know your rights]

Male U.S. representatives with daughters are more likely to vote in favor of abortion rights

They want the men who sexually use their daughters to be able to pressure them into having abortions? One more reason to not trust government.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[TAdams8591]

Too many men think they are doing women a favor, and being open-minded by taking such stands on these kinds of issues. In fact, they're causing women and their offspring a great deal of harm.

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