According to the conventional wisdom accepted by many in the mainstream media, women tend to vote Democratic more than men do because of the issue of abortion. Ramesh Ponnuru points out at National Review Online that the data do not support this belief. According to Gallup, about the same percentage of men and women describe themselves as “pro-life,” and “59 percent of men said that abortion should be legal either in no circumstances or in only a few; 56 percent of women chose those responses.”

Ponnuru also notes: