Posted on 06/02/2003 1:15:22 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:14:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
June 2, 2003 -- Almost half of Americans believe life begins at the moment of conception, a new poll says.
Forty-six percent say a fetus should be considered a person as soon as conception occurs.
Another 24 percent believe human life begins only when the fetus can survive outside of the womb. Just 11 percent believe life begins at birth, according to a Newsweek poll released yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No they don't, but they do change laws.
Well, it's never taken a majority of anything other than the Supreme Court to rain death down upon our land. So continued bad news for the babies.
Also, that's a sizable % (19%) that they didn't indicate where they fit. Was it 19% didn't know? Or 10% thought life begun at some arbitrary magical transformation point somewhere in first-trimester land? (and 9% didn't know?)
Not exactly a feather-in-the-cap to portraying America as scientifically enlightened in this ultrasound era. Sounds to me like we're still in the dark ages if 54% of folks think superstitiously that some magical "isness" occurs at whatever point they want to arbitrarily confer personhood to a living being. "Presto," they say, "you're a person now and you weren't a minute ago."
This is "enlightened" America, eh? (Time to stress need for fetal development in our science classrooms)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.