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The latest Gallup poll finds that only 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as pro-choice on abortion, the lowest percentage ever recorded. Fifty percent identify as pro-life, just one point shy of the record. Pro-lifers now outnumber pro-choicers among independent voters.
Sonograms, science, and real-life experience with abortion have clearly made it harder to reconcile choice with the reality of the act being chosen.
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RJ| 5.23.12 @ 1:32PM
When it comes to ObamaCare, its supporters are neither "pro-choice" or "pro-life."
Bill| 5.23.12 @ 9:20PM
Pro-choice is a ridiculous term. It is pro-abortion or pro-life. The child has no choice.
Bob S| 5.23.12 @ 11:39PM
It's a term coined by the radical feminists who wanted to blunt the emotional impact of taking the life of an unborn baby by telling women it "empowers" them to make their own choice.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 5.23.12 @ 1:37PM
Anybody who's living, you'd imagine would be Pro-Life, it just kind of makes sense to me, that is except for the Folks who work at Planned Murderhood, I guess they like ripping babies apart, which would make them Pro-Choice (the choice being, what alcohol to drink after work, to make them forget about what they do for a living)!! We should help put them out of business, even if it adds to the unemployment lines!!
Tanguera| 5.23.12 @ 2:13PM
Perhaps it's been the highlighting of partial birth abortion, including the exposure of Obama's record on this, that has led many to see what a slippery slope "choice" can be.
Jack in Wi.| 5.23.12 @ 3:10PM
That is wonderful news. I have been involved in the pro-life movemnet for decades. Now if we could just get the political class to do something about it.
Romney = McCain| 5.23.12 @ 3:18PM
This is a testament to the work of changing hearts only The God who created the universe can perform. He deserves full credit.
MRD| 5.23.12 @ 3:50PM
I would characterize myself as vigorously pro-life and by this I mean , I believe abortion is prenatal murder. That said we should not become complacent that people answering a Gallup poll question are you "pro-life" or pro- choice" by saying "pro-life" really mean what I mean or say a Mike Huckabee would mean when they say "pro-life" To us abortion needs to be limited by the law, Roe v Wade reversed and so forth. Most of us who are "pro-life" in this fashion think that a candidate that we might otherwise like politically on other issues is simply disqualified if they are not with us on this issue. Of course that makes perfect sense because if you believe the current abortion regime equals killing of human beings, (albeit prenatal humans) on an industrial scale, how could you support someone in favor of that? That said Obama who is the most pro abortion of pro-abortion presidents is sort of neck and neck with Romney. Really could a country that is 50% pro-life elect a President Obama? No those of us in the pro-life world need to sober up and realize we have a very long way to go.
David W| 5.23.12 @ 4:03PM
I am not a woman, and I cannot begin to imagine what goes through a woman's mind when she learns she is pregnant (different emotions based upon the circumstances and situation in which she finds herself).
However, that does not change the fact that a potential life is being purposefully destroyed. I know that miscarriages happen (for many reasons). But to purposefully destroy an innocent life is wrong (I find it difficult to understand how someone can be pro-choice yet be against the death penalty. Yeah, I know, "but what if he/she is innocent". Guess what, you just blew your rationale for being pro-choice then).
C Bowen | 5.23.12 @ 4:09PM
While good news, when one looks at the various abortifacient (the Pill, implants, injections) American women use, I am not sure this is the sign of a moral awakening, but rather a compromise with technology--which should be something to work with.
Clint| 5.23.12 @ 8:23PM
Romney on Abortion - 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Bob S| 5.23.12 @ 11:38PM
They try to fabricate a war on women, and instead they end up getting the lowest support on record for abortion. Genius.
Jimbo| 5.24.12 @ 7:07PM
Of course, if all of the women who would otherwise have aborted their babies instead put them up for adoption, how many "pro-lifers" would line up to adopt?
Just wondering...