Second Poll Confirms More Americans Pro-life on Abortion

Last week Gallup announced that for the first time in their polling, more people identify themselves as pro-life than pro-choice, 51% to 42%. Yesterday, a Fox poll backed that up by showing similar results (49% pro-life to 43% pro-choice).

These results are likely even an understatement, because the way the question is phrased makes a big difference. I remember one woman, who, when asked to identify which she was, pro-life or pro-choice, said something like, "Well I think it should be a choice for when a woman is otherwise going to die, so I guess I'm pro-choice."

The point is that those calling themselves pro-choice include people, like this woman, who are against abortion 99.9% of the time. Of course, we would want to tell such a woman that while there might be the very, very rare situation of where it would physically help a woman to remove an unborn baby before birth, there is no reason to kill that baby.

Plus all research shows that a woman with a physically challenging pregnancy calls for the woman to be hospitalized and stabilized, not aborted. Indeed, since 1998, Kansas has kept track of whether or not late-term abortions were done to prevent the death of the mother, and of the 4,800 Kansas late-term abortions done during that time (2,800 of which were on babies deemed viable--able to live outside the womb at the time of the abortion), NONE were reported as being done for that reason.



~ Mary Kay Culp, KFL Executive Director

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  1. Yes, the latest poll shows the pro-life people are in the majority. Considering how they word the questions, the numbers are probably even greater in our favor.

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