Pro-Choice author Melody Rose, in her book Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States, discusses Republican and Democrat views on abortion. by comparing voting records, she came to the following conclusion:
After examining the voting records of Republicans and Democrats on abortion related legislation between 1994 and 2005, she says that Mathematically, she calculates that the average party unity score (instances of Republicans voting pro-life and Democrats voting pro-choice) was 87% for Republicans and 71% for Democrats—meaning that Republicans more consistently voted pro-life than Democrats voted pro-choice. She makes the point that the Republican Party is more committed to its antiabortion stand in the Democratic Party is committed to the pro-choice platform.
Melody Rose “Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States” (Washington DC: CQ Press) 2007 Table on page 172
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