Our summers last seven months, and we get two weeks of spring if we’re lucky. As it happens, Tuesday was one of those rare spring days; outside the Statehouse there was a breeze. The same half laughed and booed when a Republican senator, Clyde Chambliss, stumbled through the details of the female reproductive system. Women in Alabama are not a monolith. There is a gap between how men and women view abortion in Alabama, but it isn’t huge: According to Pew Research Center, in 2014, of Alabamians who believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases, 53 percent were women, and 47 percent were men.

Source: New York Times May 16, 2019 18:50 UTC