Inching away from the abyss? More in US identify as pro-life
The Gallup and Pew surveys on pro-life identification show that more Americans see themselves as pro-life than last year, and fewer see themselves as pro-choice. Those disputing the legality of abortion under any and all circumstances rose slightly. The Gallup poll found 51 percent identifying with pro-life, up 7 points from last year while pro-choice ID dropped 8 points. Some observers speculate that this means Obama's all-things-abortive-are-rights mentality has caused counter-momentum in the popular thinking about the propriety of abortion.
Of course Nancy Keenan, in partisan robot fashion, disputed the poll, making the lame argument that recent elections meant more people were pro-choice. She assumes the issue is what moved voters and not the economy and war. I think she knows the truth, but lies for her organization. And that should cause us to distrust NARAL, PP and like abortion industry lobbies with a monetary interest in perpetuating their own existence in the name of 'rights.'
Can a mortal wrong be a right without creating bad case law under the letter and spirit our Bill of Rights?
Many here have said they are not "for abortion" personally, however favor policies that keep it a legalized choice and a subsidized industry. Such proponents tend to avoid explaining what is wrong with abortion that they are not for it, because this would expose contradiction with the position that it should be a right.
In part this is because the valuation of life in degrees from conception to birth does not permit distinctions unless one makes eugenic or utilitarian judgments about who lives and who dies. The implications of such judgments are worse than any other rationalization for a violation of any other right less egregious than the deprivation of life.
