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Poll Watch: More Americans Pro-Life Than Pro-Choice
So says the latest Gallup poll. And, fewer think abortion should be legal “under any circumstances.”A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.” This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995.
The new results, obtained from Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, represent a significant shift from a year ago, when 50% were pro-choice and 44% pro-life. Prior to now, the highest percentage identifying as pro-life was 46%, in both August 2001 and May 2002.
The May 2009 survey documents comparable changes in public views about the legality of abortion. In answer to a question providing three options for the extent to which abortion should be legal, about as many Americans now say the procedure should be illegal in all circumstances (23%) as say it should be legal under any circumstances (22%). This contrasts with the last four years, when Gallup found a strong tilt of public attitudes in favor of unrestricted abortion.
Well, most Americans relaize that abortion is a grizzly, unseemly procedure that may be tolderated but yet is not easily accepted, except in some extreme circumstances like rape and incest.
Americans now know about the Planned Parenthood abortion mills set up in urban, inner city areas of most American cities which pray upon minority communities. Americans know about the partial birth abortion abuses and the abortion at any cost because of profit clinics.
Look at this poll:
Note that the legal abortion under ANY circumstances has decreased by 6 points over the year and illegal abortion in ALL circumstances has increased by 6 points. So, what has spurred the change? What is different in a year?
Answer: President Obama and a change in American abortion policy.
With the first pro-choice president in eight years already making changes to the nation’s policies on funding abortion overseas, expressing his support for the Freedom of Choice Act, and moving toward rescinding federal job protections for medical workers who refuse to participate in abortion procedures, Americans — and, in particular, Republicans — seem to be taking a step back from the pro-choice position. However, the retreat is evident among political moderates as well as conservatives.
It is possible that, through his abortion policies, Obama has pushed the public’s understanding of what it means to be “pro-choice” slightly to the left, politically. While Democrats may support that, as they generally support everything Obama is doing as president, it may be driving others in the opposite direction.
When President Obama forces religious medical schools and hospitals to teach and perform abortions or lose federal funding their will be a larger shift and a public outcry of a loss of religious freedom.
Likely, the shift towards the public directing/demanding a more moderate abortion policy than Obama’s is being reflected in the polls.
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Poll Watch: Poll Shows Support for Legal Abortion Drops to Lowest Level in 15 Years
This is what a new Pew Research poll says.A new poll conducted by Pew Research finds the support for legal abortions has dropped to its lowest level in 15 years.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 31-April 21 among 1,521 adults, finds President Barack Obama’s abortion advocay could be sparking a shift to the pro-life side of the abortion debate.
The Pew poll found 46 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in most cases (28%) or all cases (18%) and 44 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in most (28%) or all cases (16%).
That two point margin in favor of abortion is the lowest margin since 1995 as Pew, and other polling firms, have been asking the same polling question of Americans across the country every year.
The proportion saying that abortion should be legal in all or most cases has declined to 46% from 54% last August.
Currently, 44% say abortion should be illegal in most (28%) or all cases (16%), up slightly since last August (41%).
Breaking down the polling results by social groups and comparing them with Pew’s results in August, men saw a 10 percent pro-life shift and women a 5 percent shift between polls.
Older voters 50 and up experienced a greater shift (10-11 percent) to the pro-life position making abortions illegal while voters under 50 saw a five percent pro-life shift.
Politically, there has been notable decline in the proportion of independents saying abortion should be legal in most or all cases; majorities of independents favored legal abortion in August and the two October surveys, but just 44% do so today.
Here are the charts:
And, who says that America is moving LEFT on social issues? That is not to say that abortion anytime soon will return to being illegal but there is clearly a disfavor in this pro-death grizzly procedure.
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Stem Cell Research, Cloning and Slavery – An Argument
Tune ahead to about 2:30 for the Stem Cell ArgumentA different type of argument but why stem cell research is dangerous despite the best of intentions.
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Planned Parenthood Rebranding for Upscale Abortions
Planed Parenthood flush with cash from low income women abortions is planning a “rebranding” to become more attractive to women in the suburbs and to appeal to women of means. For subscribers to the Wall Street Journal the link to the entire piece is here.And, more abortions is a worthy goal?
I thought American society wanted “FEWER” abortions.
A POX on PP.
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Mitt Romney Watch: Brownback Calls Out Mitt on Abortion
Yesterday it was John McCain dumping on Romney for FLIPPING on abortion.
Romney’s own comments on the abortion issue have been as follows:
1994: Mitt Romney was pro-choice:“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.” (Joan Vennochi, “Romney’s Revolving World,” The Boston Globe, 3/2/06)
2001: Mitt Romney was not pro-choice:“I do not wish to be labeled pro-choice.” (Mitt Romney, Letter to the Editor, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/01)
2002: Mitt Romney was again pro-choice:“I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one … Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s.” (Stephanie Ebbert, “Clarity Sought On Romney’s Abortion Stance,” The Boston Globe, 7/3/05)
November 2004: Mitt Romney said he converted to the pro-life position.Romney said he changed his views after meeting with Harvard scientists on stem-cell research: ‘It hit me very hard that we had so cheapened the value of human life in a Roe v. Wade environment that it was important to stand for the dignity of human life.’ (Karen Tumulty, “What Romney Believes,” Time, 5/21/07)
May 2005: Mitt Romney reaffirmed that he was “absolutely committed†to support the pro-choice position.
Six months after he claimed to have converted to the pro-life position, Romney stated: “I am absolutely committed to my promise to maintain the status quo with regards to laws relating to abortion and choice and so far I’ve been able to successfully do that and my personal philosophical views about this issue is not something that I think would do anything other than distract from what I think is a more critical agenda …” (Mitt Romney, Remarks At Press Conference, 5/27/05)
January 2007: Mitt Romney acknowledged he was “effectively pro-choice.”On January 29, 2007 during a visit to South Carolina, Romney stated: “Over the last multiple years, as you know, I have been effectively pro-choice.” (Bruce Smith, “Romney Campaigns in SC with Sen. DeMint,” The Associated Press, 1/29/07)
February 2007: Mitt Romney stated that he “was always for life.â€
On another campaign stop in South Carolina, Romney stated: “I am firmly pro-life… I was always for life.” (Jim Davenport, “Romney Affirms Opposition to Abortion,” The Associated Press, 2/9/2007)
Here is Mitt Romney on abortion in 2002:
As Flap has said before, he can accept Romney’s conversion to a pro-life position but the main question is Romney SINCERE or POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT?
Most probably the latter. This makes him a LIAR and disqualifies him from the Presidency.
The Brownback campaign has a suggetion for Mitt:
“The best advice for Mitt Romney comes from Mark Twain: ‘Always tell the truth. That way, you don’t have to remember what you said.’â€
OUCH……….
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Michael Ramirez on the US Supreme Court Upholding the BAN on Partial Birth Abortion
Supreme Court OKs Abortion Procedure Ban
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions.
For the first time since the court established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents.
The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
The law is constitutional despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman’s health, Kennedy said. “The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice,” he wrote in the majority opinion.
Doctors who violate the law face up to two years in federal prison.
Kennedy’s opinion, joined by Bush’s two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, was a long-awaited resounding win that abortion opponents expected from the more conservative bench.
The administration defended the law as drawing a bright line between abortion and infanticide.
Reacting to the ruling, Bush said that it affirms the progress his administration has made to defend the “sanctity of life.”
GOP Presidential candidates in favor:
Democrat Presidential candidates against:
The case 05-380 Gonzales v. Carhart
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