The average person does not identify with Twitter’s insane abortion debate

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Texas has either brought Taliban rule to America or will bring about the next coming of Christ, depending on which side of the aisle you read on Twitter today. But while the Twitterati remains polarized beyond measure, the average person has maintained an incredibly nuanced, centrist, sympathetic, and occasionally counterintuitive approach to the abortion debate.

The share of the nation that identifies as nominally “pro-choice” or “pro-life” has remained stagnant over the decades in an effective 50-50 deadlock. But this outline obscures the details of the debate.

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