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More Americans "Pro-Life" Than "Pro-Choice" for First Time
gallup.com ^ | May 15, 2009 | Lydia Saad

Posted on 05/15/2009 3:05:48 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg

Also, fewer think abortion should be legal “under any circumstances”

PRINCETON, NJ -- 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; abortion; americans; gallup; moralabsolutes; prochoice; prolife
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Check out the whole piece, very interesting data. It's going to be hard for the left to refute!
1 posted on 05/15/2009 3:05:48 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
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To: topher

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2 posted on 05/15/2009 3:10:27 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (will work for bailout bonus.... Twitter: maddawggmorgan)
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To: rhema

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3 posted on 05/15/2009 3:12:31 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (will work for bailout bonus.... Twitter: maddawggmorgan)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Time is on our side because the people who are in favor of abortion are aborting their offspring.


4 posted on 05/15/2009 3:20:07 AM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Good news. I am not sure why the shift, though. Especially after last November’s election results.


5 posted on 05/15/2009 3:28:13 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: Mad Dawgg

Bump for later reference


6 posted on 05/15/2009 3:32:20 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: iowamark

That could be answered by polling a second dimension of how many care about it to cast a vote that would make a difference in governmental policy. 40% of potential American voters last November didn’t vote for any presidential candidate.


7 posted on 05/15/2009 3:37:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Good point. It may also have something to do with the immigration in this country. Hispanics tend to be practicing catholics, and come from a country where abortion is illegal (although there have been attempts to change that).

In a few years, democrats may have to change their platform to restrict abortion if they keep recruiting hispanics.

It is interesting to watch, and to keep fighting this fight every day. God has an interesting way of fixing things sometimes......


8 posted on 05/15/2009 4:02:48 AM PDT by wombtotomb (ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT VS. LEFT, ITS ABOUT RIGHT VS. WRONG!)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Americans in policy have always been pro-life. The problem was many Americans were pro-choice simply because of the exceptions of rape, incest, and life of mother. There was always a majority who supported bans on late-term abortions, requiring parental notifications, and partial birth abortions.


9 posted on 05/15/2009 4:04:59 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: iowamark
Good news. I am not sure why the shift, though. Especially after last November’s election results.

The far-left has power and is abusing it, turning lots of moderate people more conservative. No matter how much the media reports conservatism is dead, the exact opposite is true. Conservatism is growing stronger and will be motivated to vote the next election cycles.

10 posted on 05/15/2009 4:07:20 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: iowamark
Good news. I am not sure why the shift, though. Especially after last November’s election results.

With Obama's abortion record, and his willingness to allow babies from botched abortions left to die, people are finally getting the real picture about abortion. They are seeing firsthand, the liberals for what they really are, and they have reasons for concern.

11 posted on 05/15/2009 4:42:24 AM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I did not vote for president last year. I voted for a distant relative for state representative.


12 posted on 05/15/2009 4:45:25 AM PDT by AceMineral (Offically unapproved of since 1973)
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To: Roy Tucker

Time is on our side because the people who are in favor of abortion are aborting their offspring

I have said that very thing for a long time. And those of us who are ardently pro life are educating our children to know the evils of abortion and all its other related horrors. And they are getting it, and passing it on. I would like to relate a quick but powerful example.

My son, who is entering seminary minor next fall, goes to public school in a fairly liberal area. In his psychology class last year, abortion was a topic of discussion for a very long couple of weeks. He and only one other boy were the ONLY pro life position in the class. They tried every argument under the sun, to no avail. During this time, some powerful videos and photos had come out on the internet, and I showed him some of them and his reaction was very powerful. The next day, he and his one friend decided they would print some of these pictures (aborted fetuses and body parts) and hung them all the way around the classroom.

The reaction was astounding. Some people refused to enter or remain in the room, others stared in disbelief. Almost the entire class became pro life, and ALL of them decided they would need to rethink their position on the issue. The teacher, an unbelieveably amazing former marine, true blue conservative (go figure in a liberal public school) sent me an email telling me how much he loved having my son in his class. While it was his job to allow debate and even argue the other side on lopsided arguments, he allowed my son and his friend to argue this point on their own at their request. It warmed my cockles to hear this story, and I hope it encourages other parents to teach their kids the values they share :)


13 posted on 05/15/2009 5:23:08 AM PDT by wombtotomb (ITS NOT ABOUT RIGHT VS. LEFT, ITS ABOUT RIGHT VS. WRONG!)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Too bad pro-choice has all the marbles.


14 posted on 05/15/2009 5:48:59 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Praise be to GOD!


15 posted on 05/15/2009 5:52:01 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Check out the whole piece, very interesting data. It's going to be hard for the left to refute!

It will also be hard for the anti social conservatives and the libertarians to deal with.

16 posted on 05/15/2009 5:52:51 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: Mad Dawgg

The only thing we have left is Prayer, Mark Steyn, Rush Limbaugh, Carrie Prejean, Larry Elder, Bill Cosby, Tom Tancredo, Governor Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, The Free Republic, Kurt Weldon, The Canada Free Press, The NY Post and Washington Times, Governor Mark Sanford, Governor Rick Perry, Dick Cheney, (Congressman?) Duncan (California), Mike Savage, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity and the American People, known as “Flyover Country” or “Rednecks” or “The Radical Right”.

Come to think of it, that’s quite a bit!


17 posted on 05/15/2009 5:57:32 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: Roy Tucker

“Time is on our side because the people who are in favor of abortion are aborting their offspring.”

That’s a very interesting — probably very valid — theory. They’re aborting themselves out of existence.


18 posted on 05/15/2009 5:58:42 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: ScottinVA

On the flip side, conservative Christians need to PROCREATE and multiply.

And, even more importantly, don’t left the left “procreate” by indoctrinating YOUR children into their ideology (public schools).


19 posted on 05/15/2009 6:00:27 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: wombtotomb

That is wonderful — thank you for sharing!


20 posted on 05/15/2009 6:11:48 AM PDT by llmc1
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