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Are Pro-lifers Winning the Argument?
August 25th, 2009 by James GrantGene Veith points out that the Washington Post has recent poll that says 51% are Pro-Life:
A Gallup poll found for the first time that a majority of Americans identify themselves as pro-life.
A May survey, just released, asked the question: With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?
In 1995, 33 percent of respondents identified themselves as pro-life and 56 percent as pro-choice. But in May, 51 percent said they were pro-life and 42 percent said pro-choice.
Just a year ago, 50 percent of Americans surveyed identified themselves as pro-choice and 44 percent as pro-life.
Veith comments: “What is striking here, though, is the progress and the rapidity of the shift: In 1995, 33% were pro-life; in 2008, 44%; in 2009, 51%!”
Posted in Abortion | 3 Comments »
August 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I don’t put much stock (and certainly no hope) in surveys like this. If 51% of Americans have rightly understood the pro-life position, then they will vote that way in 2010. If Congress reverts to Republican control next year, then there may be some basis to a survey like this. If not, then at least part of the 51% who say they are pro-life do not rightly understand the issue.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:45 am
i’m not so sure that a republican take-over is a valid indicator of the survey’s conclusions. for example, most african-american christians are pro life, yet will pull the lever for the party that is abortions greatest proponent without reservation! i do think though that pro lifers don’t abort and teach their children their values about life. therefore, it seems to only make sense that pro aborters would exercise themselves through choice, right into a minority.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Greg,
Actually, most of the people in congress who vote pro-choice on legislation call themselves “pro-life”. But we’ve got this wonderful new category whereby one can be “pro-life” personally yet altogether pro-choice personally. So ergo, because it is less painful now to be pro-life than it used to be (I might have to vote my conscience, and run the risk of the wrath of my hostile and often-violent pro-choice neighbors), many more people are chooing that choice. Pun intended.