This poll is not really a surprise. A majority of Americans have always been pro-life. The media pretend otherwise, but despite all their efforts most people find the killing of babies to be unpleasant, at best.
One way that McCain could have won the last election was to use the debates to expose Obama as an abortion extremist of the worst kind. But he avoided the subject almost completely.
Similarly, instead of wringing their hands at Akin’s minor flub, if the Republicans and conservatives had counterattacked by exposing the obvious love of baby-killing that clearly lies behind the media attacks, they would have won the battle and a lot of votes, and turned a negative campaign into a positive one.
Placemark.
AP in their Obama story today tried to claim that Obama was the mainstream (infanticide, gay marriage) on social issues while the pro life, traditional marriage movement (using Akin as a hammer) were extremists. It’s amazing the disconnect they have from the country they live in.
This is in agreement with what the Wall St. Journal refers to as the “Roe effect.” The idea is that most people tend to adopt the same political views as their parents, and that liberals have a higher abortion rate than conservatives. As a teacher of biological evolution migbt say - liberals are literally aborting themselves out of existence.
A ban to stop aborted babies from being shelved to die would be burdensome to their mothers. She alone should decide whether her baby lives or dies. Before voting “no” for a 2nd time in the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 5, 2002,
Obama stated:
What we are doing here is to create one more burden on women, and I can’t support that.
In the Illinois legislature, he opposed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act three times.
He opposed a partial-birth abortion bill in Illinois, even as the federal version passed the House with 282 votes and the Senate with 64 votes and was signed into law by President Bush in 2003.
In 2007, he told the Planned Parenthood Action Fund that his first act as president would be signing the Freedom of Choice Act. The act would enshrine in federal law a right to abortion more far-reaching than in Roe v. Wade and eliminate basically all federal and state-level restrictions on abortion. This isnt a point its supporters contest; its one they brag about. The National Organization for Women says it would sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.
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I love Rubio's speech where he says the pro abortion lobby says "well it cannot live on its own, so the mothers rights trumps life." Except a new born cannot live on its own, a two year old may not live on its own. Lost argument.
I tell all young people I meet that a woman's choice is choosing to have sex. That is your choice and once THAT choice is made, you take responsibility for the consequences of your choice.
Come to the 2013 Prolife march in DC it will be the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, 40 million dead babies and counting.