Comments on: Fox News poll: Pro-Life 49%, Pro-Choice 43%

By: strangelet

strangelet — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:27:17 +0000

No I’m saying you HAVE to overturn Roe to impose restrictions on abortions.
Douthat said this also. Want has nothing to do with it.
From those same polls, 75% of American’s want some form of legal abortion, also.
I’d say your best bet would be to accept Obama’s outreach and work to limit second tri abortions and eliminate third tri abortions with a maternal health exception, which is supported by a durable 80% of Americans in the GSS database.
But I fully expect that won’t happen.

By: Opportunity Costs

Opportunity Costs — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:10:01 +0000

As usual Strangelet is assuming we want to overturn Roe V Wade. A lot of people want the issue to be decided on a state by state basis by legislative law or referendum rather than by ~~nine~~ five guys in black robes in DC.

The level of acceptance for abortion is decreasing because the use of late term abortion and such horrors as partial birth abortions are embraced by the far left. Even people that favor pro choice to an extent get squeamish about later term abortions.

With the amount of prematures that are saved by medical technology earlier and earlier every year its becoming more evident that past 3,4,5 (depends on who you ask) months, its not a fetus, a label to assuage guilt and remove humanity from the life, but a child, deserving of protection and a chance at life.

By: strangelet

strangelet — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:40:05 +0000

538 says Gallup is not a trend, but an outlier. FOX polling is usually corrupted by sample bias. I'll wait for more data.

By: strangelet

strangelet — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:36:36 +0000

Todays young voters.

The majority of high school seniors do not believe that a woman who is poor and unable to afford another child should have a legal right to an abortion. Two-thirds of high school seniors would require parental consent before a woman under the age of 18 could legally obtain an abortion. 70 percent of females in the class of 2006 say they would not consider abortion if they became pregnant while in high school. Yet, more than 60 percent of high school seniors want the Supreme Court to preserve the Roe v. Wade abortion decision.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:33:13 +0000

Well I agree. To quote my closing remark,

I hope what we’re seeing continues. This is the right direction, but there is still a long, long way to go.

By: strangelet

strangelet — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:29:11 +0000

Dude, this is the poll that matters.

The 1973 Roe versus Wade decision established a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first three months of pregnancy. Would you like to see the Supreme Court completely overturn its Roe versus Wade decision, or not?

30% Yes, overturn
68% No, not overturn

Unless you can overturn Roe, you got nuthin’.
Do you think that will happen in the next 8 years?
lol

Its nice to know that GW was an equal opportunity screwer.
His hESCR veto? Gone in a blink.
Roe v Wade?
Here to stay.