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Posted on 12/17/2007 4:36:26 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll on the topic of abortion finds that the attitude Americans have on the controversial political issue is moving in the pro-life direction. The Washington Post /ABC news survey find a six percent shift in public opinion towards the pro-life direction in the last six months.
The media outlets conducted a poll from December 6 to 9 of 1,136 American adults and the survey contained a three percent margin of error.
The poll asked respondents, "Do you think abortion should be legal in all cases, legal in most cases, illegal in most cases or illegal in all cases?"
The wording of the poll is cause for some concern because it doesn't identify when abortions are done so respondents can identify the exact cases when they support or oppose abortions.
While the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research arm of Planned Parenthood, shows that fewer than two percent of all abortions are done in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother's life, most Americans think those "hard case" abortions occur much more often.
Still, the poll is instructive because it finds the pro-life margin is increasing.
The latest results find that 53 percent of Americans think abortion should be legal with 18 percent saying in all cases and 35 percent saying in most cases.
The survey found 44 percent of Americans take a pro-life position saying abortions should be illegal, with 27 percent saying most should be illegal and 17 percent saying all abortions should be prohibited.
That 53-44 percent split is a change from the same Washington Post-ABC News survey conducted in July, which found a 57-42 percentage point split.
That means the pro-abortion side has seen its margin shrink in the poll from 15 percent to 9 percent in the span of six months.
Other surveys with more accurate questions on when Americans oppose abortion find a pro-life split with about 55 percent opposing most or all abortions and 45 percent wanting to keep most or all abortions legal.
A recent Fox News poll reveals that a majority of Americans oppose the overwhelming majority of abortions that take place in the United States and a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey found 50 percent of Americans opposed all or almost all abortions.
Surveys from CBS News reveal that a majority of Americans oppose abortions in about 98 percent of all cases.
The ONLY reason that people think these happen more often is because the rape/incest approach is repeated ad nauseam by the abortionists.
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Once women take back the responsibility for their own behaviors maybe they won't find themselves in the pregnancy predicament.
Womens' groups made it too easy for too many women to find an excuse for their promiscous behavior and subsequent abortions.
But what goes around comes around --> psychological problems in dealing with infanticide as well as the correllation between abortion and breast cancer (pre 1970 there were hardly any breast cancer cases --> post Roe vs Wade --> hundreds of thousands of breast cancer cases in which those lovely nonprofits like the American Cancer Society et al trot out the victims ... victims my foot... they're perps getting their just rewards for killing their babies.
I agree with you completely.
Therefore, 82% believe abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances.
That is depressing.
Only 18 percent of Americans would support Roe v Wade if they understood it.
Read this though, the majority oppose it in all but cases of rape and incest (which only represent 2% of abortions):
http://lifenews.com/nat3389.html
Clearly they also support it if the life of the mother is severely endangered, which is the Catholic Church position.
The reality is that abortions to save the life of the mother almost always are in cases of ectopic pregnancies where the baby was NEVER going to be born alive.
Media bias contributes to that perception, as well.
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Outright lying about the facts does more to harm your cause than it does to help it. Breast cancer has indeed risen over time, but not nearly so dramatically as you claim. It's gone from 105 in 100,000 to 133 in 100,000 and back down to 124 in 100,000 our current rate. It's an out and out lie to say there was hardly any breast cancer pre-roe.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla says, “Clearly they also support it if the life of the mother is severely endangered, which is the Catholic Church position.”
Lucius, you are mistaken. The Church supports abortion in no case. Here are some sections from the Cathechism:
2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,” “by the very commission of the offense,” and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.
Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, “if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence.”
2322 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a “criminal” practice (GS 27 § 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.
Oops, that’s principle of double effect ;-I
Which is, IMHO, the right of the mother to self defense, otherwise known as acting to save the life of the mother. Good to be in agreement.
Thanks for the ping. By the way, I love the quote from Dr. Seuss “A Person’s a Person, no matter how small.”
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
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