Being Pro-Life

For a person holding a pro-life stance, it is sometimes disconcerting to see how often and how positively the media reports the pro-abortion position. I sense that pro-life advocates are portrayed as crazy freaks who desire nothing but to control your life because of our religous fever: today abortion, tomorrow mandatory attendance at church and ankle length dresses for women.

It's very interesting, then, that Stuart Buck reports in his blog entry, "New Abortion Survey", on a poll that attempts to take the temperture of the pro-life stance in American consciousness. His conclusion:

The pro-life position is very much in the American mainstream.

Key observations from a poll of women:

On ranking the top legislative priorities Out of 12 items on the list, "keeping abortion legal" came in at 11th place, just above "increasing the number of girls who participate in organized sports."


On a poll of abortion itself: 51% of American women think that abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest, or where the woman's life is in danger. And a further 17% think that it should be available "but with stricter limits than it is now." I would read this as implying that 68% of women would probably be happy if Roe were overturned and the state legislatures were once again able to pass laws further restricting abortion.

51%. Wow.