It was important for everyone on both sides of the abortion debate to see John Kerry giving Kate Michelman a peck on the cheek just prior to nominating the leading pro-abortionist in North America for a kind of secular canonization.
While, for the record, sponsors of the April 25 "March for Women's Lives" insisted the gathering was non-partisan, in fact it was a love fest with the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee who returned the favor with lavish words of praise.
For example, Michelman, the retiring President of NARAL, was described by Kerry as "one of the great modern day civil rights leaders in the United States."
And, picking up the theme of the day, Kerry repeatedly promised variously that, “We will not turn the clock back in this country,” "We cannot go backwards today,” as well as other iterations of the same lame observation.
What really intrigued me was Kerry's insistence that President Bush's position on abortion and his judicial appointments were "extremist."
This from a man who unequivocally told the Associated Press (back when there were other Democrats still competing for the party's presidential nomination),
"And I am proud that I am the only presidential candidate to pledge that I will support only pro-choice judges to the Supreme Court."
One measure of who is in the mainstream and who is not is public opinion polls. On the eve of the march, Zogby International polled 1,209 individuals to determine their view on abortion. The results were a direct repudiation of the kinds of people, including John Kerry, who attended the march.
A remarkable 56% of respondents took a pro-life posture. According to Zogby, 18% said abortion should never be legal, another 15 % said legal only when the life of the mother is in danger, while another 23% said legal only when the life of the mother is in danger or in cases of rape or incest.
To repeat, 56% said abortion should either never be legal or legal only in situations where the mother's life is in danger or in cases of rape or incest.
Only 42 percent of those surveyed agreed with one of the following statements about legal abortion: legal for any reason in the first three months (25%), legal for any reason during the first six months (4%), or legal for any reason at any time during the woman's pregnancy (13%).
This is very significant. Only one in eight Americans toe the abortion-on-demand line.
Moreover, without going into elaborate detail, more people self-identify as pro-life (49.1%) than do "pro-choice" (45.3%). Especially strong sentiments come from the Hispanic community (72.1% consider themselves pro-life versus 26.6% who consider themselves pro-choice). While this is reassuring, what about the younger generation?
The Zogby poll found a nearly ten point gap in the 18-29 year-old-category. That is, 51.6% identified as pro-life as against only 41.8 who told the pollster they considered themselves pro-choice.
What did the "March for Women's Lives" prove? That with limitless money, a year to prepare, and boatloads of sympathetic media coverage, pro-abortionists can bring a lot of people together in Washington, D.C. every 12 years or so.
We do it every year--and not just in Washington, D.C. When numbers are compared, it's important to remember that while 100,000+ pro-lifers routinely come to D.C. to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, tens of thousands of other pro-lifers are gathering in state rallies around the nation.
So don't be intimidated by the usual pro-abortion hype. You are on the winning side in this arduous battle.
posted by: WhyNot (reply)
post date: 04.29.04 (7:50 am)
Pray to don't find yourself gang-raped by 20 adolescents for 4 years continuous starting at age 13 (reported on Fr TV news last night). I'd like to see you crawling and begging for an abortion.
Go find yourself a brain. Even a second-hand one. Get a heart as well.
posted by: LynnKramer (reply)
post date: 04.29.04 (11:41 am)
You were gang raped by 20 x 4 years? That is terrible. You were abused without a doubt. That's what this is all about in a nutshell, child abuse. Abuse of the self defenseless. And now, are you still suffering? Please come into where you can be helped and loved. Thats what we all need. Thanks for you positive comment.
It was important for everyone on both sides of the abortion debate to see John Kerry giving Kate Michelman a peck on the cheek just prior to nominating the leading pro-abortionist in North America for a kind of secular canonization.