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 challeng...