Granberg D
Fam Plann Perspect. 1987 Mar-Apr;19(2):59-62.
In the 1984 election, Ronald Reagan, the Republican presidential incumbent and an opponent of legal abortion, defeated Walter Mondale, a prochoice Democrat, by a wide margin. Despite Reagan's sweep of 49 states, however, conservatives lost a little ground in the Senate, where four of the seven new senators elected take a prochoice position on abortion. On the other hand, antiabortion forces registered some gains in the House of Representatives. The voting groups were more divided over the abortion issue in 1984 than they had been in 1980: In 1980, Reagan voters and Carter voters did not differ significantly in their attitudes toward abortion, but in 1984, Reagan voters were significantly more likely to be opposed to abortion than were Mondale voters. Nevertheless, only a small minority of voters considered abortion to be a major national issue, and the two voter groups were far more divided on several other issues than they were on abortion. There was no antiabortion consensus among the electorate as a whole, or among Reagan voters in particular. The level of approval for legalized abortion has, in fact, remained quite stable since 1973, and a popular base in favor of banning abortion seems to be lacking.
在1984年的选举中，时任共和党总统且反对合法堕胎的罗纳德·里根以较大优势击败了支持堕胎选择权的民主党人沃尔特·蒙代尔。然而，尽管里根赢得了49个州，但保守派在参议院稍有失利，新当选的七名参议员中有四人在堕胎问题上支持堕胎选择权。另一方面，反堕胎势力在众议院取得了一些进展。1984年，各投票群体在堕胎问题上比1980年更加分化：1980年，里根的选民和卡特的选民在堕胎态度上没有显著差异，但在1984年，里根的选民比蒙代尔的选民更有可能反对堕胎。尽管如此，只有一小部分选民认为堕胎是一个重大的国家问题，而且这两个选民群体在其他几个问题上的分歧远比在堕胎问题上的分歧大。在全体选民中，尤其是在里根的选民中，并没有反堕胎的共识。事实上，自1973年以来，对合法堕胎的支持率一直相当稳定，而且似乎缺乏支持禁止堕胎的民众基础。
