Pew poll: big drop in abortion support

The Obama effect? A Pew Poll released today showed a steep decline in abortion support:

The proportion saying that abortion should be legal in all or most cases has declined to 46% from 54% last August.

By his radical support of abortion, Obama has been giving the pro-life movement so many opportunities to raise important points. And the American people are apparently listening.
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Support for another liberal favorite, gun control, also took a dive.
[HT: LifeNews.com]

Apr.30, 2009 1:50 pm | Polls |

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8 Responses to “Pew poll: big drop in abortion support”

Arlen Williams says:

April 30, 2009 at 3:14 pm

The best news I’ve heard, all year, Jill. Thank you for bringing this out.
We have heard so much complaining about these Obamafascists as to money, money, money… and economic freedom, I’ve been very worried that America was not getting the point.
I believe God has been saying, you want to sup on the fallacy that rebellion and sexual iniquity can be without consequence? Okay, I’m going to give you your supper. Now, eat it. Obama, Sebellius, Napalitano, Pelosi, etc., and Nazicrime collaborator, George Soros….
Maybe some are getting full.
Vannah says:

April 30, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Yay!
People do choose to do the right thing in the end!
YCW says:

April 30, 2009 at 3:21 pm

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
You Catholics really need to clean house. 51%!
Bobby Bambino says:

April 30, 2009 at 3:34 pm

” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: You Catholics really need to clean house. 51%! ”
Ugh, I know, I know… It is truly sick and disgraceful. I blame it on the combination of the sexual revolt and the “spirit” of Vatican II, which has nothing to do with the actual Vatican II council.
Chris Arsenault says:

April 30, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Have to agree with you Bobby – it’s not the actual teaching, it’s the failure of those professing to apply God’s Word.
Maria says:

April 30, 2009 at 3:49 pm

I would say the decline in support might just be because we see abortion through those disgusting images that some complain about.
Joanne says:

April 30, 2009 at 6:29 pm

Thank God for this news. I’ve felt for a long time that if people really understood what abortion is the majority would oppose it.
I used to think that abortion was wrong but I had no right to impose my views on anyone else until I made a point of educating myself. Once I knew about partial birth abortion and late term abortion I was horrified. And going to Tiller’s site the first time is something I won’t forget.
The fact that pro aborts are getting so loud and vocal is another sign I think that pro life activists are having a positive impact.
heather says:

May 1, 2009 at 7:21 am

Joanne, I love your website! I also wanted to let you know that we have quite a few celebrities on our side. I’ll send you a list. Gotta love Kathy {the model}!!!

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by Kelli

The “reversals” also show that the ingestion of medication abortion drugs is never a sure thing when it comes to terminating a pregnancy. While anti-abortion activists tout the alleged “high complication rates” of the process, what they conveniently leave out is that the most common complication is that the patient remains pregnant, and that the protocol needs to be followed up with D&C or vacuum aspiration abortion in order to end the pregnancy….

Why is the “reversal” apparently so successful then? Primarily it is because those who are trying to continue the pregnancy are already in the midst of a failed medication abortion to start with….

“There’s no evidence of any demonstrable effect of the ‘treatment’ these anti-abortion centers are marketing,” Dr. Cheryl Chastine, a provider at South Wind Women’s Center in Wichita, Kansas, said. “The medical literature is quite clear that mifepristone on its own is only about 50 percent effective at ending a pregnancy. That means that even if these doctors were to offer a large dose of purple Skittles, they’d appear to have ‘worked’ to ‘save’ the pregnancy about half the time. Those numbers are consistent with what these people are reporting.”

Dr. Chastine isn’t alone in her assessment. Dr. Dan Grossman, vice president for research at Ibis Reproductive Health [and pro-abortion author at RH Reality Check], told Iowa Public Radio that the “treatment” was unlikely to be doing anything at all.

“[The abortion pill] binds much more tightly to the progesterone receptor, to block it than progesterone itself does…. So there really is not much evidence to indicate, I’m really not aware of anything, that by increasing the amount of progesterone you’re gonna somehow block the effect of this drug….

I think this is really outside of standard of care to just begin doing this kind of treatment, without collecting more rigorous studies about its effectiveness.”

~ Robin Marty, questioning whether attempting to save babies like Gabriel Caicedo (pictured above with his parents and Fr. Frank Pavone) is worth it, Talking Points Memo, March 2

Note: The function of mifepristone is to block progesterone receptors (which is why, in an abortion pill reversal, an extra injection of progesterone is given to counteract these effects). Mifepristone “directly causes endometrial decidual degeneration, cervical softening and dilatation, release of endogenous prostaglandins, and an increase in the sensitivity of the myometrium to the contractile effects of prostaglandins. Mifepristone-induced decidual breakdown indirectly leads to trophoblast detachment, resulting in decreased syncytiotrophoblast production of hCG, which in turn causes decreased production of progesterone by the corpus luteum (pregnancy is dependent on progesterone production by the corpus luteum through the first 9 weeks of gestation—until placental progesterone production has increased enough to take the place of corpus luteum progesterone production).”

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