15 Reasons Why the Pro-Life Movement is Winning on Abortion

Life News ^ | 7/16/14 | Jill Stanek

[wagglebee]

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade in January 2013, Time magazine published a surprising and iconic cover story about how the pro-choice side has been losing ever since it thought it won in 1973. The reasons Time listed were spot on:

1. Pro-life laws
2. Public sentiment
3. Pro-abortion generational in-fighting
4. Playing defense (defending the status quo)
5. Science
6. Stigma
7. Aging abortionists

Indeed, abortion advocates have been in an admitted state of panic for quite some time over building pro-life momentum.

But within the past several days two abortion advocates have separately admitted their side is losing…

• “It’s not just Hobby Lobby: the pro-life movement is winning” ~Sarah Kliff, formerly of the Washington Post, now senior editor at Vox.com
• “Ten reasons women are losing while gays keep winning” ~Dr. Jay Michaelson at The Daily Beast.

Other recent abortion articles have hit on the same theme…

• “How bad medicine is sweeping the country, one state at a time” ~Tara Culp-Ressler at Think Progress
• “Pro-life movement winning the battle over abortion, birth control accessibility” ~Jessica VanEgeren at The Cap Times

Here are 15 reasons why abortion proponents think pro-lifers are crushing them, as lifted from the aforementioned abortion articles. A couple were included in Time’s list, but most are in addition:

1. Obama’s election and reelection prompted pro-life groups to focus on state avenues to pass legislation rather than federal.
2. Due to the Republican wave of 2010, in part in response to Obama’s election in 2008, there has indeed been a huge spike in pro-life laws passed on the state level - 226 since 2011, more than the entire previous three decades combined.
3. The convoluted passage of Obamacare in 2010 was “rocket fuel” to the pro-life movement, writes Kliff, quoting Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest, which led to the introduction of some of those bills.
4. A profusion of abortion clinic closures, 81 in 2013 alone, according to Operation Rescue. The number of abortion clinics has decreased by 73% to 759 from a high of 2,176 in 1991.
5. Moves to defund Planned Parenthood.
6. The Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.
7. The Supreme Court’s buffer zone decision.
8. The abortion lobby’s inability to reframe the debate into one about discrimination. “Unfortunately, even the name ‘pro-choice’ reinforces that the movement is about acts and not identity,” writes Michaelson.
9. The abortion lobby’s inability to reframe the issue into one all can relate to.
10. The abortion lobby’s shortage of poster children. Sandra Fluke, for instance, was a dud.
11. Their opponents (us!) are “sophisticated… smart and methodical,” according to Michaelson.
12. Even liberals as a political body aren’t united in support of abortion, because as Michaelson admits, “Abortion is a kind of murder.” Ew.
13. No Fortune 500 corporations are lining up to support abortion, as they are with the homosexual lobby, which would bring “movement dollars and public awareness,” writes Michaelson.
14. “Feminism has an image problem,” writes Michaelson.
15. Religion: “Secular arguments about the separation of church and state may play well to the base,” writes Michaelson. “But they don’t move the middle.”

In a nutshell, quoting VanEgeren:

Whether it’s through hundreds of laws passed at the state level or the recent Hobby Lobby decision that allows companies to deny birth control coverage to employees on religious grounds, the pro-life movement is on a winning streak over access to abortions and birth control.

“It’s kind of like waiting for the other shoe to drop,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager with the Guttmacher Institute, a think-tank focused on sexual and reproductive health policy. “I’m not entirely sure what will happen next.”

Well, here’s another shoe, impossible for abortion proponents to fill. Quoting Sarah Weddington (pictured), the lawyer who successfully persuaded the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade, speaking at an event on July 12, via KnoxNews.com:

“Today, the young people are so much further (along) than I was at their age,” she said. “They speak more languages. They go on more trips. They have to show me how to use my iPhone … but one of the things we haven’t quite managed to do is to give them the same burning motivation to change things that we believe are wrong in the way that we did.”

In other words, the pro-choice crowd has no rear guard. They killed them.

LifeNews.com Note: Jill Stanek fought to stop “live birth abortions” after witnessing one as an RN at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. That led to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act legislation, signed by President Bush, that would ensure that proper medical care be given to unborn children who survive botched abortion attempts.

[trisham]

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[Biggirl]

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[TheOldLady]

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[BykrBayb]

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[BykrBayb]

What’s an opus?

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[Gefn]

I always thought Opus was a penguin in Bloom County, :)

[ansel12]

You have to remember marriage as a universal institution is relatively new. In the last two hundred years, it went from the lower class has no exception (or ability) to get married to the high marriage rates of the early 1900’s.Simply put, the lower classes have have typically had lower rates of wedlock throughout history.

Remember? I have never heard of it. Poor people in Western Civilization couldn't marry?

I would like to see the sources for that.

[ansel12]

I remember as a kid where every dang show on TV had a heroic woman killing her child.

When was that?

[redgolum]

My bride’so water broke at 15 weeks. I saw my little girls face that day. My child was delivered at 33 weeks, and is sleeping in front of me.

I do not understand those who say she was not a child at 15 weeks, yet is today

[redgolum]

Early 80’s, late 70’s.

[redgolum]

I will reply in depth later as typing on my phone sucks. Marriage rates for the lower classes in Europe were very low in the 17th and 18th century. If you look at English and French records from the time, there was a large class of unmarried men and illegitimate children. Marriage was expensive and many laborers in cities did not marry.

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[TheOldLady]

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[ansel12]

I remember as a kid where every dang show on TV had a heroic woman killing her child.

I don't recall abortion on TV shows being common in the 1970s and 1980s.

I also am curious about the rate of marriage for females before 200 years ago, I sure don't think there were many in America, or anywhere else actually.

Here is an example from a book describing Medieval British Society, 1066– 1485 ""As many as 94 percent of the peasant farmers were married. ""

[Jim Robinson]

The moderator pulled it because your posted link did not work.

[Yaelle]

You guys were very blessed. 15 weeks is so early no doctor would have given you much hope. 33 weeks, that is awesome! Full term for twins, almost!! Enjoy a happy lifetime with your little girl.

Oh, I agree. Just my regular sonogram at 15 weeks showed a little Casper the friendly ghost forehead which my daughter still has at age 2! And I did see her heart beating at 6.2 weeks, and prayed it would beat for at least another 80 years.

[Gefn]

I remember there was an episode of “Maude”, where Maude considered having an abortion.

I can’t think of any other shows, but I do remember Elaine with her sponges.

[RKBA Democrat]

Those 15 reasons miss the most important one:math. Children tend to take on the philosophy and ethics of their parents. The parents who embrace the culture of life have kids. The culture of death kills it’s children. So, 40 years later there are far fewer women who are pro infanticide.