{"id":16911,"date":"2012-05-23T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=16911"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:14:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T06:14:15","slug":"majority-of-americans-believe-abortion-is-morally-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/majority-of-americans-believe-abortion-is-morally-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong, &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; label hits record low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>According to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/154838\/Pro-Choice-Americans-Record-Low.aspx\">Gallup Poll<\/a>, 50% of Americans now consider themselves pro-life, up 5% from last year, and the numbers of those who call themselves pro-choice has dropped to a record low of 41%. Additionally, this increase in people identifying as pro-life is consistent among Republicans (up 4%), Democrats (up 7%), and independents (up 6%). However, the number of people who believe that abortion is immoral is unchanged from last year at 51%, and the percentage of people who believe that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances has remained mostly steady since 1975 and is currently at 2o%. These numbers indicate that while there has been a shift in how people identify themselves &#8211; pro-life or pro-choice &#8211; their actual opinions on abortion remain virtually the same.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16992\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/march-for-life2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16992\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16992 \" title=\"march-for-life2\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/march-for-life2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/march-for-life2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/march-for-life2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Youth March for Life in Washington, D.C. Photo by Sal Guerrero.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It seems that while most of us believe that abortion is immoral, we don\u2019t believe that it is bad enough to put a stop to. We are still allowing the pro-choice rhetoric to cloud our judgment while we stand by as children are murdered at the hands of their own mothers and greedy abortionists. Those age-old pro-choice slogans still echo in people\u2019s minds and spill through their lips: \u201ca woman\u2019s body,\u201d \u201ca woman\u2019s health,\u201d \u201ca baby incompatible with life.\u201d And people still argue that we can\u2019t go back to coat-hanger abortions,<\/p>\n<p>that abortion has existed since the dawn of time, that fetuses aren\u2019t people. But these twisted words and arguments aren\u2019t anything that the pro-life movement can\u2019t defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-aborts\u2019 arguments in favor of abortion go hand-in-hand with the pro-slavery arguments for the United States to withhold the rights of African-Americans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/us\/27f.asp\">Those arguments<\/a> included the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/americancivilwar.com\/colored\/dred_scott.html\"><em>Dred Scott<\/em> decision<\/a> ruled that all African-Americans had no legal standing as persons, the fact that slavery had existed throughout history and was therefore part of the natural order of things, and the assumption that the end of legal slavery would bring about economic decline and bloodshed. Yet slavery was abolished, and this proves that abortion can be too.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that most of America still believes abortion should be legal under certain circumstances (52%), there is reason to celebrate. If 51% of Americans say that abortion is immoral, then it is only a matter of time before they all realize that it should also be illegal. With increased access to technology that shows us life inside the womb, and with a growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/headlines\/index.cfm?storyid=8138http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/headlines\/index.cfm?storyid=8138\">young generation<\/a> of pro-lifers, these numbers are likely to change in favor of the rights of unborn people. It is a fickle time in America, and the perfect time to change hearts and save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tide is turning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong, &quot;pro-choice&quot; label hits record low - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/majority-of-americans-believe-abortion-is-morally-wrong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Majority of Americans believe abortion is morally wrong, &quot;pro-choice&quot; 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