Posted on 05/18/2009 5:40:28 AM PDT by theothercheek
A new Gallup poll of 1,015 adults finds that a razor-thin majority (51 percent) of Americans are now "pro-life" vs. “pro-choice" (42 percent) ...
Perhaps no convert to the pro-life view is more high profile than Norma McCorvey – AKA “Jane Roe” in ... Roe vs. Wade ... [S]he was at Notre Dame University Sunday protesting the school’s decision to invite President Barack Obama to give the commencement address. ...
In his speech, Obama said that ... we are imperfect beings prone to “all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin.”
Sadly, Obama does not consider killing an unborn child to be a “cruelty” ... and ... there is no hope of change in his pro-abortion position.
The Stiletto ... agrees with the church’s teaching that abortion is “an intrinsic evil” – that is, “always and everywhere wrong” ... At the same time she is a free speech advocate, and does not believe that a school should have a litmus test when extending invitations to illustrious persons – and let's face it, you can’t get more top-drawer than a president – to address the student body.
That said, it’s a whole ‘nother thing to confer an honorary degree on Obama as Notre Dame did and the Arizona State University famously declined to do.
ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeler told The Associated Press the school awards honorary degrees “to recognize an individual for his body of work” and that Obama’s “is yet to come.” Notre Dame did not have that problem - Obama has an extensive body of work thwarting restrictions on abortion – yet was not deterred in bestowing the honor.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestilettoblog.com ...
OK, maybe too conspiratorial, but...I found the timing of the poll results release interesting? Wonder if it is done annually or if it was done at this time to coincide with the ND speech—then Gallop re-polls following the O speech to see if the country moved....
...How about this, let’s call pro choice pro abortion, or is the definition of abortion to strong for the definition of to kill, terminate???
A similar poll was done last year - and every year previously since 1995. However, the specific timing of this one may have been jiggered a bit to co-incide with Obama’s speech so as to make the results - which could not be predicted ahead of time - newsworthy. Little did the pollster realize that the results would have been newsworthy on their own, seeing that there was a significant shift to the pro-life side that took them by surprise.
I would love to believe that this will be reflected in the voting booth...but I doubt it.
Stupid @ss Poll. “Do you want unborn children to live OR die?”
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As far as Obama....He doesn't even get to answer....
razor thin 9% difference, yeah right, and obama won by a landslide.
Why is this surprising?
Seems to me that the folks most likely to take advantage of medical services to terminate pregnancies are those who are more likely tending toward the progressive/liberal end of the spectrum, anyway.
So, over the period since Roe v. Wade, it would seem plausible that a majority of the millions of abortions performed involved those same left-leaning people. Those aborted babies would otherwise have been raised in left-leaning homes, being indoctrinated in the progressive positions.
The net result should, then, tend to show a shift in the broad public opinion as fewer progressive minds reach adulthood.
Just sayin’
9 percent difference, but only 1 percent majority. Also, the numbers don’t add up to 100 percent so one has to wonder how that remaining 7 percent can be “undecided” about a life-or-death issue like this one.
To me, the big news in the poll is the shift in women’s attitudes: First, because they are the ones who decide whether to get an abortion or carry a child to term so Roe v. Wade affects them directly and not theoretically. Second, because women tend to vote Democrat throughout their lives - even if they become less “progressive” they tend to stick with the party.
There are those who would not personally get an abortion but do not want to impose their choice not to on someone else by taking the option away. Maybe that’s where that “undecided” 7 percent in this poll fits in ...
Sadly, there are many who call themselves "pro life" or will say that abortion is murder, but they will toss that aside, saying it isn't their right to impose their morals on others.
If someone TRULY believes abortion is murder, they couldn't just relegate it to a side issue any more than they could toss it aside if one million wives were being murdered by their husbands every year.
I thought the US was always pro-life, as it should be
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