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Polls Claim 'Divide' on Abortion When Over 80% Want It Legal
Indenendent Journal Review ^ | 7/8/2017 | Larry Legum

Posted on 07/08/2017 8:41:26 AM PDT by antidemoncrat

From Pew:

Today, a 57% majority of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 40% think it should be illegal in all or most cases. These views are little changed from a year ago, though the share saying abortion should be legal in all or most cases is now higher than it was in the fall of 2015, when Congress battled over funding for Planned Parenthood (51% legal, 43% illegal).

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2017polls; abortionpoll; proaborts
The graph says 50% want abortion in certain cases and doesn't define the conditions. I'll bet the conditions are in case of rape or incest or health of mother but the title of the article says 80% want it legal. Reminds me of the book "How to Lie with Statistics".
1 posted on 07/08/2017 8:41:26 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

the same polls that said 99.9% support hillary.


2 posted on 07/08/2017 8:57:14 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: antidemoncrat

Wow! Talk about Fake News. 80%? Yeah, right!


3 posted on 07/08/2017 8:57:20 AM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: antidemoncrat

The questions are too general and unspecific to make the poll results at all meaningful.

There are major divides between the various “legal under this(these) condition(s) only” and “legal no matter what”.


4 posted on 07/08/2017 8:57:47 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: antidemoncrat

Lying with statistics:

The average person has one testicle.
Survey of 99.9999999% human beings.


5 posted on 07/08/2017 8:58:31 AM PDT by oldbill (ure wa)
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To: antidemoncrat

“How to Lie with Statistics”
Take poll at whore houses and curb crawlers.


6 posted on 07/08/2017 9:19:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: antidemoncrat
Until now, there has existed a strange silence on the subject of Democrats' absolute insistence on promoting the "destroying" of human life in the womb.

On the underlying question moral question discussed here, nothing addresses it better than the simple logic of this quotation from Mother Teresa, who, at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC on February 3, 1994, as cited above, stated: "And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"

Mother Teresa's declaration may be the most powerful statement from which to begin discussions of where a person or group stands on all the questions of life and liberty.

In America, our constitutional protections rest on the Founders' premise that each and all individuals are "endowed by their Creator" with the unalienable right to both life and the liberty to enjoy it, or, in their words, "the pursuit of happiness."

The sole reason these rights were deemed unalienable is that both are derived from the Creator--not from the mother or father, and not from government or judicial decision. What is "granted" by human decision also can, by implication, be withheld.

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them (life and liberty)," said Thomas Jefferson.

"The world is different now. . . and yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forefathers fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and every protection of our Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life and liberty, of laws to protect them, and it distinguishes ours from other forms of government.

When we fail to acknowledge that foundation of our liberty, then we risk liberty itself for future generations, for where does the right to choose who lives and who does not really end?

That is why the question is of vital importance in each election. Already, we have deprived millions of their Creator-endowed rights to life and liberty, and our nation must be weaker for their loss. We need leaders who understand the implications and potential consequences of departing from our founding principles.

In recent decades, technological advances have enabled us to observe the characteristics and actions of God's tiniest creations in the womb. Unlike previous generations who could not see, we have no excuse for imagining that these are mere blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." In their early weeks, we now can see that they are living babies who will continue on to possess life and liberty if we do not "destroy" both. Indeed, they are simply smaller versions of ourselves.

Questions on the economy, taxes, threats from terrorists, health care--all are considerations at this election time. One, however, may be basic to all others. Who will best protect the underlying premise of our Constitution--and the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn?

Promises are illusive and cheap. One fact is indisputable, however: Democrats are, generally, committed to the Far Left's agenda on this matter, and that agenda is not compatible with our Constitution's premise.

7 posted on 07/08/2017 9:29:44 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: oldbill

That’s a new one for me. I really like it.

I will remember it and use it! Appropriate and ear-catching.


8 posted on 07/08/2017 9:54:05 AM PDT by Kay
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To: antidemoncrat
"I'll bet the conditions are in case of rape or incest or health of mother but the title of the article says 80% want it legal."

I've heard those 3 conditions for as long as I can remember. I would like to know how many of those that aborted children due to rape and incest ended with the male arrested for the crime? I would also like to know what specific health condition can save the life of the mother by aborting the child?

Whenever I ask this to a pro-abortion person, I get blank stares or an angry response. I assume both come from the fact that they have bought into propaganda rather than the fact based truth.

I've met several people through the year that have had abortions. None were due to rape, incest or their health. It was always post fertilization birth control. I'm not saying that it's always that but it seems to be the most common reason I've run into.

9 posted on 07/08/2017 9:54:45 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: antidemoncrat
"How to Lie with Statistics"

First thing I thought.

BTW, life and liberty begins at conception.

Cases of rape,incest or health of mother situations are extremely rare.

10 posted on 07/08/2017 10:23:50 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: oldbill

Here’s another one about statistics:

There are lies, darn lies and statistics...


11 posted on 07/08/2017 11:03:53 AM PDT by Kay
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To: Dutch Boy

” I would also like to know what specific health condition can save the life of the mother by aborting the child? “

C Everett Koop, our former surgeon general, said there was none. And that was decades ago. Medical knowledge has advanced even further since then.

Even if there were such a case, we could still take the baby out and try to keep him/her alive. Taking it out in little pieces or as a burnt cadaver hurts just as bad as removing whole IMO


12 posted on 07/08/2017 11:46:23 AM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Kay

And one ovary


13 posted on 07/08/2017 9:12:05 PM PDT by oldbill (ure wa)
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To: oldbill

Touché.

Well said.


14 posted on 07/09/2017 10:06:23 PM PDT by Kay
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