We began by searching the phrase “gender vs. abortion views”.  We found one chart that was very interesting, and shows the relationship between male and female views from 2001 through 2010. Also, we searched students views on abortions and teachers views on abortion, but generally nothing came up.  We are going to have to find our own information for that section without any back up help [1].

Not much information came up, we found a website with a teen and gender poll on abortion. From the website, we found that 45% of teens believe in the legalization of abortions under certain circumstance while one third believes abortion should be illegal under all circumstances and 21% believe it should be legalized under any circumstance [2].

Another website we found showed a survey taken by the New York Times.  It stated that  41% of surveyed want stronger limits on the abortion law, 34% said it should be available without any restrictions, and 23% do not want the law to be permitted at all.  Many of the searches that come up involve a lot about religion and religion is not a factor in our study [3].

During our search for information, we searched the effect abortions have on men, most people assume that only the women have a hard time getting through the problem. It also says that men go through the same symptoms of loss and regret as a female would.  This would have some effect on our study to show that a lot of men have the same opinion as women about the laws[4].

After the searches we were making became repetitive, we decided to change our search engine, we started using Bing.  In Bing we searched surveys between men and women on abortion laws.  After we searched that we found a very useful website with many different statistics between adult men and women.  It has a wide range of questions being asked and the responses are not just yes, or know, they are more detailed and close to the people’s opinions [5].

Although we are limiting our search to just North Olmsted High School, many states have split opinions. This year alone there has been 374 bills introduced into the state legislatures this year, which is 200 more than the previous year.  Kansas and Nebraska are the only two states to ban abortion after 21 weeks, which shows that people’s opinions during elections go into consideration for the benefit of their state.  Many Americans believe that the legal system should be protecting the unborn children [6].

 


1.http://d2o7bfz2il9cb7.cloudfront.net/main-qimg-f2aa9ce2ac2d7a2763b36ec64bd8194b
2.http://www.gallup.com/poll/7969/current-teen-views-abortion.aspx
3.http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/public-opinion-on-abortion/
4.http://www.afterabortion.com/mens_react.html
5.http://www.pollingreport.com/abortion.htm
6. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/14/abortion.state.laws/index.html