Posted on 10/28/2004 7:17:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
A nationwide scientific poll conducted by the polling firm Wirthlin Worldwide shows that a significant majority of Americans believe that abortion is "almost always bad" for women -- even when they know a woman who has had an abortion.
The poll of 1001 respondents, conducted for Americans United for Life, a public interest bioethics law firm, asked three questions:
1) Just generally, do you believe that abortion is almost always a good thing for a woman or almost always a bad thing for a woman?
Base -- 1001 respondents
Almost always a good thing -- 230 (or 23 percent)
Almost always a bad thing -- 609 (or 61 percent)
Don't know/refused -- 162 (or 16 percent)
2) Do you personally know someone who has had an abortion?
Base - 1001 respondents
Yes -- 640 (or 64 percent)
No -- 335 (or 33 percent)
Don't know/refused -- 27 (or 3 percent)
3) From your observation, was that generally a positive or negative experience?
Base - 640 respondents (those who responded "Yes" to question 2)
Positive experience -- 256 (or 40 percent)
Negative experience -- 352 (or 55 percent)
Don't know/refused -- 31 (or 5 percent)
"This poll shows that Americans are increasingly aware that legalized abortion harms women," said Dorinda Bordlee, Esq., senior legislative counsel for Americans United for Life.
"Over thirty years of abortion has wreaked havoc on women's physical and psychological heath, and has served to facilitate the sexual exploitation of women. This poll shows that Americans are facing the reality that the violence of abortion leads to disaster for women, our children, and our culture. Abortion has not turned out to be the great liberator we were told it would be."
I'm almost to the point of believing Bush isn't really trying to win this election anymore. His handlers and speech writers SUCK. I'm sorry, but they do. In this last week especially, he hasn't had a much needed rapid response team in place to bat down and snuff out John Kerry's daily drumbeat of baseless attacks and charges. As much as I loathe John Kerry, I'll give him his due. He can lie as quickly on his feet as I've ever seen and appear believable in the process. Now I know how Hitler happened. God, please protect us and deliver us from democrat rule.
Most abortions are people who are sexually loose, who have no sense of chastity. Mostly, sexually active teens and mistresses. Pre-marital sex and extramarital affairs is why abortion is so common. We need to teach kids abstinence and always have advocated it.
Even slavery wasn't as bad --- you might have owned the labor of the slave -- but you did not have a right to exterminate him, you could not end his life just because you no longer found him convenient or because you decided to have a slave and then changed your mind. A slave could be given his freedom later on, all hope could not really be taken away --- something a dead baby can never have.
Even better, the MSM has a GUIDEBOOK that orders their reporters to use terms like "those who favor a woman's right to choose", and "those who OPPOSE a woman's right to choose" once in a while you'll even see the term "anti-choice". Or "opponents" of the "'so-called' partial birth abortion". This is a Dan Rather specialty.
the more you know about abortion..the less you like it. I'm amazed that more Black Americans are not more concerned. Over a million Black Americans a year are denied the right to life.
I know a woman who lives with tremendous guilt because of an abortion she had. She now has one son and wonders if the baby she aborted would have been like him because she adores the ground this kid walks on.
In the research I've seen, a large percentage of women who have had abortions say they would not do it over again if they knew what they knew now.
Yes, it is a personal issue but it is so important that young women.. particularly those under 16...get good counseling, preferably from parents, before they take that step.
by the way, if you know of anyone using the RU486 pill, they should be aware that there have been a number of deaths associated with it and ongoing research is showing a substantially higher percentage of birth defects and deformity in subsequent pregnancies. One in 100 women require a transfusion because of the enormous blood loss associated with this pill...and the most horrifying part is that planned parenthood will prescribe this pill right over the phone without proper counseling.
Do you REALLY believe that you have no right to prohibit a person from taking the life of another just for their own convenience?
Killing philosofy123 is morally wrong, and I would never do it, but some people justify doing it, and I have no right to forbid them. Their morality comes from their faith and their hearts, and not mine.
Alan's image of abortionists equal with slave traders is so dead on.
Those who threw slaves overboard for convenience sake because they were not people are the same as the baby murderers.
It strikes me that even folks who don't get it and support 'abortion rights' should think abortion is always a bad thing, and justify it on the basis that some alternative is worse, certainly their rhetoric takes that position, by claiming that carrying and giving birth to a child who is the product of rape or incest or will live a short life in pain because of some genetic defect; or making the tough decision to either change your life to take care of a child, or carry him or her to term and give the child up for adoption is worse than killing the child.
Killing is always a bad thing, but indeed it is sometimes less bad than the alternative. (The Orthodox penance all homocides, even justified homocides in self-defense, defense of family, or in war, but lightly compared to the life-long excommunication with reception of the Holy Mysteries on the deathbed only which is the penance for murder--St. Basil's canons provide for a 3 year excommunication for justiable homicides, though long excommunications are no longer the norm.)
I know that Orthodox Jews regard the circumstances in which carrying the child will result in the death of the mother as the only circumstance under which abortion is permissible. I can see a Christian argument for a smilar position, though the woman who refuses, trusting in God, and dies trying to carry the child surely is welcomed with a martyr's crown in heaven. But even in those circumstances it is evil and a matter for penance.
However according to the Bible if I see the murder of innocents going on and do nothing, I am guilty of the same.
And the Bible is very clear that unborn are people,
specifically addressing the accidental death of an unborn child from a nondeliberate but negligent act that causes a miscarriage,
and requires the death of the responsible person in punishment.
I hope you have thought out what may seem to you to be an innocent expression of living in a free republic, but at your judgement may cause you to be sentenced as a accessory to murder.
agreed
Dear Taiwan Bocks,
Thank you for the warning.
You do understand that by mirroring the post to which I was replying, I was showing the inadequacy of the reasoning in use.
sitetest
instead of using bad/good, i wonder if the results would be different if they used Right/wrong ?
I'm expecting to see this headline in tomorrow's New York Times, right next to the "Abortion Linked to Breast Cancer" headline.
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Im going to agree with you.
Abortion is worse. 44 million dead since 1973. The tragedy of slavery doesn't even come close.
Please don't slam President Bush on the abortion issue. First, realize that it is the law of the land, and until ROE V WADE is struck down, the President has the sworn duty to uphold the law of the land. Saying that, President Bush, unlike Sen Kerry, has constantly reaffirmed his believe that abortion is wrong and has urged alternatives (abstinence).
More importantly, President Bush got legislation passed to ban partial birth abortion (although it is being challenged in court and may require a re-write if struck down.) President Clinton vetoed it twice when it came to his desk and Sen Kerry voted NOT to ban partial birth abortion 6 times.
President Bush overturned Clinton's order allowing taxpayer funds to pay for abortions..both here and in Mexico. President Bush supports notification of parents prior to a minor's abortion.
President Bush has done more to set moral clarity on this issue than any other President. Although he cannot openly appoint Judges who would be ANTI abortion, he can appoint judges who are conservative, fair and NOT PRO CHOICE.
If you truly care about respect of life of the un born, you should be doing everything in your power to re elect Bush. Remember.. this Sunday is the last Sunday before election. If you go to church, talk to your friends. discuss this issue.
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