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• Enigma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My mom was one. Didn’t realize until I was older, and long after she died. But yeah, she only voted Republican because she was anti abortion. She had an abortion and suffered from unintended side effects and didn’t want other women to experience the same. I get where she was coming from, but she definitely had the wrong idea with banning abortion.

  Oddly enough, it was a comment on Reddit that opened my eyes to everything. Something along the lines of “Dems don’t want women to have abortions. But we’d like the choice if need be.”

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  • mookulator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow I’ve never heard of someone wanting to ban a medical procedure all together because they experienced an adverse effects of it. Thanks for the view into a psyche that I didn’t know about.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Scientists can tell with like 80% accuracy what the political identity of an American is… just from a brain scan.

      If the prefrontal cortex is larger and more active, that person is likely to be empathetic and use higher reasoning to control their emotion. Those people overwhelmingly vote Dem.

      If the amygdala is larger and more active, then that person is more likely to feel fear or anger and act based on those emotions without thinking.

      Then there’s the 20% where they’re just kind of average and it’s a coin toss.

      That is why a woman can view her individual experience decades ago with an abortion and use that to rationalize not letting any woman get one now.

      She’s not empathetic enough to understand other women may be in a worse spot than she’d have been if she kept.

      She isn’t using the critical thinking to understand decades of medical advancement means it’s a lot safer now.

      But she is still in fear of her bad outcome.

      And she’s still angry she had complications.

      If it doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you’re brain isn’t working the same as the other side. The tragedy is only one side is usually able to understand it. The other side just keeps ranting about crazy shit because they’re constantly terrified or pissed off about a hypothetical.

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      • Nimrod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do you have a source for this?

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      • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Really? You want to try and play that card mr mengele?

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      • Erk@cdda.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the kind of factoid you shouldn’t spread unless you’re prepared to back it up with a lot of hard data and sources, since you’re essentially arguing biological superiority over your opponents. Very little comes from that

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      • astraeus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The source article is a small research article sampling young adults who were students in college. The article itself addresses the scope of its findings aptly:

        Although these results suggest a link between political attitudes and brain structure, it is important to note that the neural processes implicated are likely to reflect complex processes of the formation of political attitudes rather than a direct representation of political opinions per se. The conceptualizing and reasoning associated with the expression of political opinions is not necessarily limited to structures or functions of the regions we identified but will require the involvement of more widespread brain regions implicated in abstract thoughts and reasoning.

        We speculate that the association of gray matter volume of the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex with political attitudes that we observed may reflect emotional and cognitive traits of individuals that influence their inclination to certain political orientations.

        I don’t think it is a good idea to base your opinion of political bias and brain chemistry on a single article’s speculation.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s absolutely a thing. It’s partly because nobody listens to “1% will have a complication” because it’s so small and it’s probably going to be nothing, and outside of a handful of procedures it’s not really gone into depth. But when you’re that 1% and it’s bad it’s hard to acknowledge that the gamble was probably a good bet actually or at the very least it could’ve been and you made the choice. It’s especially rough when like abortion neither option has a high risk of serious complications, but the active choice is less risky. That one’s kinda rough on our neurological risk processing

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• anonono@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they may be smart enough to avoid telling you they are voting republican.

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• rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know anybody that WILL ADMIT THEY vote republican because of their abortion stance that doesn’t also agree with the rest of the party’s policies.

  FTFY

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• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t live in the US, but from a foreign perspective, it seems like pretty much everything is heavily divided depending on political alignment - and increasingly so. From my perspective, it seems like there are basically no politically neutral news outlets or types of social media, and even locations seem to lean heavily towards a specific political direction. So it seems obvious that people are spoon fed into a specific alignment. Consuming news of an opposing view or communicating with anyone with opposing views just seems unnatural in those environments. So to me, it seems like political views is commonly a huge package deal.

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  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is. I have often questioned why so many of my own views align so well with so many others.

    Is it just a coincidence? Assuredly not.

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• cerevant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is fairly common among Catholics. I’ve known some fairly progressive Catholics who are Republicans because abortion. Now, that isn’t to say that a good number haven’t bought into the divisive rhetoric and gone full maga, but that’s not where they started.

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• summerbistrorealness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know several. Very supportive of LGBTQ causes, conservationist, by all accounts would be considered “woke” by the ilk. But anti-abortion so they voted for Trump.

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