Tide Turning On Abortion
For many years it has been the “conventional wisdom” that those who were “pro-choice” on abortion were the “mainstream.” This new Zogby Poll shows that the tide has turned and that it is now mainstream to be pro-life!
Polls are consistently showing that Americans are becoming more pro-life. A December poll conducted by Zogby International, a respected nonpartisan polling firm, confirms that, by a 53% to 36% margin, the public supports the statement, “Abortion destroys a human life and is manslaughter.”
And this trend cuts across party lines:
As previous polls have shown, a strong majority of Republicans take a pro-life position, but so do a sizable number of Democrats.
Some 68 percent of Republicans agreed with the statement that abortion “destroys a human life and is manslaughter” while 43 percent of Democrats in the U.S. also agreed.
Other polls:
Other recent polls also confirm a majority of Americans have a pro-life perspective.
An October 2003 Washington Post-ABC News poll, timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the papacy of Pope John Paul II, found a majority of Americans and Catholics believe abortion is “morally unacceptable.”
Some 58 percent of all respondents said they thought “abortion, when the mother’s life is not in danger” was morally unacceptable. About 66 percent of Catholics agreed.
I for one am happy to see the tide turning on this issue. Our third president and author of The Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, said that government’s primary role was to protect individual human life. I look forward to the day when his belief becomes reality in America.
February 1st, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Hey Greg,
Dave from Lynn.Life begins at conception I never understood what the pro choice people can’t understand about it.
Life is a precious gift of God Our Lord.In the bible it says where Mary goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth who is pregnant with John the Baptist the baby leaped in her womb as she embraced Mary the Mother of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Hope to hear you both on the show soon God Bless you and Kevin.
from David R.Beaupre home of “My Political Opinion on blogspot.com under politics
February 1st, 2007 at 11:25 pm
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act is a United States law which defines violent assault committed against pregnant women as being a crime against two persons: the woman and the fetus she carries.
This law was passed in 2004 after the murder of the then pregnant Laci Peterson and her fetus, Connor Peterson.
If it is right for a man (or woman) to be charged for homicide and sentenced to prison (or worse) for killing the unborn (and rightfully so)
then shouldn’t the unborn have equil consideration in relation to abortion..?
Is a fetus earmarked for abortion of any less value to a fetus killed by violence…?
Is not abortion a violent attack on an inocent life just the same…?
I think it’s not ethical to protect one without the other…..
they’re one and the same……..
February 1st, 2007 at 11:27 pm
At the point of conception is when life began for you. This was the start of your existence. Your own personal big bang. Three weeks after conception heart started to beat. First brain waves recorded at six weeks after conception. Seen sucking thumb at seven weeks after conception.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:24 am
Gregg,
This is a great thing. I’m glad this trend is occurring. I believe that the government should promote a culture of life, as the President does. I hope this trend continues for years until nobody wants to get an abortion.
That is my problem with the issue of abortion, it is one thing to be against it, to be ‘pro-life” and to urge others to think along those lines. However, the government has a responsibility to those women who still, after all matter of influence, both public and private, are going to get one. Will women suddenly stop getting abortions if they were outlawed tomorrow? The answer is obviously no. What then? Should they have access to a safe procedure, or do they have to go the back alley route? Does the concern for human life include women who want to get an abortion? What is the pro-life crowd doing to promote adoption? Does concern for human life end with the birth of an unwanted child?
So, my position is this. Yes, I am personally pro-life. If the situation ever happened in my life, I would choose life. You are saying that women should not be allowed to get one, period. I am saying that we, as a society, should do everything we can to discourage it, by placing restrictions regarding age, parental notification, late term, etc. However, as a matter of public policy governing 300 million people, there has to be a realization that not everybody is going to agree. Even in diminished numbers, women are still going to seek abortions. It should be the last resort for those who canâ??t be, or donâ??t want to be, convinced otherwise.
The trend is heading in the right direction, even though abortion is a legal option for women today. This should encourage the pro life crowd, they are winning.
The situation is a lot more complex than they way you describe it, at least when the discussion is about a public policy that has to govern 300 million people in a free society.
Kevin
February 6th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Kevin, Solid points and good questions. Let me try to answer them and ask you a few of my own.
First you state:’However, the government has a responsibility to those women who still, after all matter of influence, both public and private, are going to get one.”
I ask you, isn’t the primary “responsibility” of the governmment to protect innocent indivudual human life? That is what Jefferson said government’s primary role was.
Also, there are a lot of things people do that are illegal that they do regardless of the illegality of the act. But this is not a justification in my mind to legalize abortion. People are going to purchase methamphetimine, but that isn’t a reason to make it “legal.” People are going to engage in pedihilia, but that is not justification for legalizing it. And abortion has far greater consequences. Every time an abortion is performed an innocent human baby in the womb is killed. Just because people are going to choose to kill thier children does not in my mind justify making that act “legal.”
And besides, how do you safely dismember a baby in the womb and discard that baby in a trash recepticle? How is that “safe for a living human baby in her mother’s womb?”
Also, if you want to talk about “safe prcedures” what about all the documented physical, emotional and mental problems for women associated and linked directly to abortion such as the ABC link?
As far as “back alley coat hanger” abortion go, as I document in my book, there has never been one documented case. Prior to abortion being “legal” on demand in all 50 states as I document in my book, they were still being performed by trained physicians. And there were considerably less abortions prior to it being “legalized” in 1972. Like it or not, greater access to legal abortion has not reduced the number of abortions (1.5 million babies are killed each year in our country- 50 million since Roe). Roe has resulted in a cheapening of life and a culture in my opinion of death.
You claim that you are “pro-life.” My question to you is what you would tell a woman who decided at 8 months into her pregnancy as many do in the third trimester that she wanted to “termintate her pregnency” what you would tell her. If you tell her no, arn’t you afraid that she would not have “safe access” to an abortion and may procure one illegally? And what distinguishes that baby at 8 months from one at 6 months? If you are “pro-life” then you support the legal protection for all human life in the womb regardless of stage of development. If you don’t support laws that protect human life in the womb, then I would argue that you support legal abortion in our society (even if you would not personally have one)and are therefore more accurately “pro-abortion” or “pro-choice” whatever you prefer.
And by the way, it is planned parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider who does not councel women in adoption options in their centers. It is groups like Focus on the Family an CWA (concerned women of America) who spend millions in support of apromoting adoption. It is NARAL, NOW, and planned parenthood who rarely if ever mention this alternative and don’t fund it.
So, even in a nation of 300 million people, I believe that we can promote a culture of life by protecting it legally by making it illegal to destroy innocent human life regardless of the circumstances. We should, and I believe do, everything possible to encourage a culture of life where each baby is afforded that inalienable right to “lfie, liberty, and happiness” as guaranteed under our Founding Documents. To me it is not complelx at all. Call me an absolutist if you want but I believe that a society that does not protect the right to life of every innocent human being in the womb is free to vilate every other inalienable (God given) right.
Gregg
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