I’ve long argued that there’s a natural alliance between atheism and feminism, for the same reason that there’s a natural alliance between atheism and GLBT activism: because we all understand what it’s like to experience oppression and discrimination rooted in religion, and we ought to grasp that by cooperating to diminish religion’s power, we can achieve goals we all hold in common. And in spite of a few recent, high-profile flamewars over questions of sexism and harassment in the atheist community, this political logic still holds very much true, as evidenced by a Gallup poll from May 29:

Americans with no religious attachment (self-identified atheists, agnostics, and those with simply no religious preference) identify as pro-choice by a 49-percentage-point margin over pro-life, 68% to 19%. This represents the strongest propensity toward the pro-choice position of any major U.S. demographic (as distinct from political) subgroup.

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