Join Online Women's Rights and Reproductive Rights Chart 7 - Public Favors Movements in Support of Women's Right to Abortion. The public in general and women in particular are more favorable toward movements to strengthen women's rights, including reproductive rights, than movements to restrict abortion rights . The 1995 National Women's Equality Poll provides extensive data about public perception of both sides of the abortion issue.
Women are more favorable toward everything involving feminism than men.
And young women are the most favorable of all. Women's rights were second only to AIDS as the issue about which young women were most concerned personally in the Harrison Hickman January 1998 poll.