Why are Democrats never warned to back away from the abortion issue as “too controversial”?
A new Rasmussen poll affirms what Gallup last year called “the new normal.” Conducted March 7-8, the survey of 1,000 people found that 44% of Americans consider themselves pro-life while only 42% say they’re pro-choice. (13% are undecided.)
The poll had many other positive findings, but here’s the one I’d like to discuss:
67% of Democrats say they are pro-choice, while the same percentage of Republicans (67%) regard themselves as pro-life. Adults not affiliated with either major political party are evenly divided.
If the percentage of support for and against abortion is exactly the same in both parties, and Independents are equally split on it, why do we only hear complaints that Republicans should avoid the abortion issue because it is “controversial”? Why is there no talk on the Democrat side that it should avoid the abortion issue for the same reason?
The answer? Obviously, pro-aborts are pushing this fraudulent line, trying to get Republican politicians to back away from abortion while encouraging (threatening) Democrats to maintain strong support.
How stupid are Republican politicians if they continue to wimp out on the abortion issue due to the false fear it will make them unpopular. If they do they will win no new friends, only lose old ones.
Why does MSM never ponder whether Democrats should back away from abortion? Why does no Democrat ever wonder aloud whether the abortion issue is politically damaging?
Pro-lifers must continue to demand that defunding Planned Parenthood is a nonnegotiable. As pro-life hero Congressman Mike Pence so eloquently stated on the House floor March 10, “It’s time to pick a fight.”…
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The fact of the matter is that the unborn human rights single issue vote (15%) is actually bigger and stronger than the anti-unborn human rights single issue vote (10%). It actually hurts the Democrats more to be pushing violence against the unborn, but they do it anyway because there are a great many very militant politicians in their party.
The fatal problem for the unborn human rights movement is the Black and Hispanic vote. This vote absolutely kills us every year. It is a formidable obstacle for us to have to deal with Black voters voting 90% for anti-life Democrats and Hispanic voters doing the same 70% of the time. The tragedy is these minority voters are more church-going and religious than White voters, yet they vote for Democratic politicians who wage war against their Christian values and whose economic and social agenda from top to bottom is very damaging to their lives. Their voting is based on habit and conditioning and is devastating to our country, not just for continuing the killing of unborn children, but also because it is impossible to solve our economic and social problems,. This is because Democratic politicians oppose virtually all rational free market, limited government solutions to these problems (which is the only way these problems can be solved).
As long as minority voters vote irrationally and overwhelmingly for politicians who are damaging their economic lives, Republicans are forced to get super majorities of White voters. If they push unborn human rights too hard, they risk losing “moderate” Whites in the middle. If Democrats push prenatal homicide too hard, they can count on Black/Hispanic voters who are pro-life to swallow hard and vote for them anyway.
The unborn human rights movement has NO strategy for dealing with this severe barrier to ending violence against the unborn. I do not even hear this subject discussed much by pro-life leaders. I am of the opinion that our movement, especially its leadership, lacks strategic understanding and this is why we have had no strategic victories worth mentioning in 40 years of trying. We simply do NOT know how to win. All you have to do is review the tragic history of Republican Presidents blundering away one Supreme Court appointment after another, while Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have had no trouble putting one militant abortionist after another on the Court.
Until we get our strategic act together and figure out how to do the simple things needed to achieve victory, it will continue to elude our grasp and our unborn children will continue to pay with their lives.
I hope for the Republicans’ sake that they remember the voters did not send them to Washington to be everybody’s friends. The Republicans made that very serious miscalculation once before and paid dearly. I was disgusted as it was when we had “prom night” during the state of the union speech. Let’s all sit together and be friends….and the Republicans fell right into line. There were no such “prom nights” when the Democrats were in power.
Republicans, do yourselves a favor and remember that we voters, your employers, view you as errant employees on probation. We’re watching your every move and anticipating your replacement if necessary.
The more I hear of Rep. Pence, the more I like him.
I get so angry when the pro life community is used to get elected and then tossed aside because they have to go along to get along. It is like we drive them to the dance and then they don’t want to be seen with us but oh how they love us at at election time.
Excellent point. I’ve often wondered the same thing.
And the Tea Party, for that matter.
This is because our movement does not require enough of our politicians. We have gotten so into “regulating child killing” and away from an all-out aggressive push to stop this crime completely now, that all they have to do is oppose subsidies or support parental notification and they can be considered “pro-life”.
Given the enormity of this crime and given how we would behave if it were millions of born humans (that is “real” humans) being killed every year, we should be putting enormous pressure on politicians in all three branches of the federal government and at the state level to end violence against the unborn once and for all. That we are not doing so is a testament to the diffident nature of our movement, to the lack of leadership of our major organizations and to our general lack of strategic understanding, our lack of understanding as to how to most effectively stop the slaughter of the future of our race.
Let’s go Jill. I’m ready for a brawl!
I see in this Obama’s reelection strategy:
1. Veto the bill and shut the government. Insist that PP get their funds or no deal on a signature.
2. Force Republicans to drop the issue over PP.
3. Once Republicans (reliably) back down, this provokes conservative outrage and gets a third party (Tea Party) candidate in the next election.
4. With a recapitulation of the Ross Perot debacle, splitting the Republican vote, Obama wins.
We need to let the Republicans know that the next election will be won or lost on this budget bill.
Planned Parenthood is a child killing, human being destroying organization. They should not get another penny from any taxpayer ever again.
Constitution party…. 100% pro-life and has never let pro-lifers down. Just sayin.
I don’t think voters are particularly unhappy with the status quo of abortion laws. Thus, you’re seeing some tinkering around, but nothing major enough to upset the pro-choices or satisfy the pro-lifers. And so it goes.
The study is interesting. It would appear that a majority (even if a small one at that) are now pro-life. The thirteen percent Undecided though might actually take the stance that I have heard a lot: “Well…I guess that abortion’s really up to the woman, but I wish that she could find something better…it’s hard to say, you know?” I hear that a lot (and I don’t mean, by the way, to make anyone who is on the fence sound uneducated- quite the opposite, I find people who are willing to accept that they just don’t know something to be very laudable). The population of pro-choicers is very mixed, too, because unlike pro-lifers, pro-choicers have various reasons to be pro-choice.
Pro-lifers are pro-life because they support fetal rights. But pro-choicers range: some disagree on every level with abortion but feel that it is not their business; some liken the argument to trying to force someone to donate a kidney; some are passionate that women should be allowed to have abortions; some just don’t care about the topic at all. Ultimately, with pro-choicers, abortion is seen across the entire movement from a scale of “necessary evil” to “positive good.”
So these polls have to be more specific. Then we could get some excellent data.
Sure, Hal, just hit the snooze alarm and go back to sleep for a while.
The Constitution Party cannot win and therefore cannot ever stop the killing of unborn children. All it can do is to take votes away from Republican candidates. We lost Senate seats in Oregon and Minnesota in 2008 because Constitution Party candidates got more votes than the margin of difference between the Democrats and Republicans. The loss of those seats was very damaging to our cause and helped ObamaCare to pass. We now have two militant abortionist politicians in those Senate seats, where before we had two reasonably pro-life ones. This was a big loss for our movement.
So, the Constitution Party may be pro-life, but on a strategic level it can only do harm to the cause of unborn human rights.
Will we ever stop referring to abortion as “the abortion issue?” It reduces the destruction of the preborn child as no different than a debate on campaign finance reform. When do we ever refer to rape as “the rape issue?”
It is not and never has been an “issue”. There has never been any question that we have a fundamental right to live according to our nature and as placental mammals must live through both the unborn and born stages. Therefore, we have a right to both stages, all stages, of human existence. The fact that we are placental mammals by itself settles this for all time in favor of unborn human rights.
Our “opponents” have no sound philosophical arguments, only “arguments”, fallacies, doublespeak and deceit, motivated mostly by psychological and sexual self interest. Their intellectual dishonesty and irrationality are absolutely breathtaking. They offer us demonizing, fearmongering, euphemisms and outright lies (10,000 deaths a year, not a baby just a blob, etc.).
It is tragic that so many people buy the abortionists’ falsehoods, when the truth about life is so readily available and so self evident.
A friend posted a link on Facebook today from the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-zuckerman/why-evangelicals-hate-jes_b_830237.html
While I was able to convince my friend that the writer of this article did not know what he was talking about, it seems to me that this article just spotlights the stereotypes that Democrats have of Republicans. (Having been a Democrat, I know I believed these things.) The article took all the positions held completely out of context. I think we need to do a better job of educating people on why we hold certain positions, and no, it’s not because we hate poor people. I’m sooooooo tired of being told that Republicans are evil.
Defunding Planned Parenthood is a small step. It will probably not diminish the number of abortions; it will merely reduce the profits of Planned Parenthood by the amount of our subsidy.
So…. we should fight hard for this first step, because it is in the right direction. If our elected leaders cannot fight this small battle, they are of no use to us. If they serve us well, we will send them more help in the next election.
Thanks be to God for Rep. Pence, and blessings upon the good people of eastern Indiana for electing him!
and I don’t mean, by the way, to make anyone who is on the fence sound uneducated- quite the opposite, I find people who are willing to accept that they just don’t know something to be very laudable
Vannah,
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”
You find those sorts of people laudable? The sort who stand by and use ignorance as an excuse for avoiding the fray? These are innocent human lives being lost to their ignorance. Get real.
“Our “opponents” have no sound philosophical arguments, only “arguments”, fallacies, doublespeak and deceit, motivated mostly by psychological and sexual self interest. Their intellectual dishonesty and irrationality are absolutely breathtaking. They offer us demonizing, fearmongering, euphemisms and outright lies (10,000 deaths a year, not a baby just a blob, etc.).”
Yawn.
Joe
You cannot hear the sound of angel wings and that’s about it. Presently we are winning not just winning we’re seriously winning. I don’t see them overturning RoevWade that would be a miracle. What I’m hoping is that lines start forming outside of courthouses filled with women who were deceived into believing they were aborting blobs. They’ve been using cadavers for a long time this is at least as long that the medical community has known that a womb was a harbor for babies and not blobs of tissue.
Hal, I applaud your economy of words. A yawn is about the most intellectually honest thing I’ve heard you utter. It’s all your side has left to say.
We have scientific truth, and all you have left are the same hackneyed bumper stickers and yawns.
Why does MSM never ponder whether Democrats should back away from abortion? Why does no Democrat ever wonder aloud whether the abortion issue is politically damaging?
Because most of the left-leaning MSM subscribes to a morally relativistic view on just about everything, including abortion; pro-choicers tend to see things not in black and white, but a hazy shade of grey, so they and left-leaning Dems go together like PB & J. Until the Republicans can maintain and increase their popularity and stay strong on being pro-life , the Dems don’t have to do much to get votes, they (the Democrats) will win by default with the MSM is in their corner.
Hi Janet,
Easy, because Republicans have always tried to “get along”. Why should Democrats back down on anything? We had “prom night” during the State of the Union address. Did Democrats ever suggest sitting together when they were in power? Republicans fell right into line. Let’s all be friends. I could have gagged.
Can you just imagine the great generals Patton and Eisenhower concerning themselves with “getting along” with the defeated Germans at the end of WW2?
Republicans still need to learn how to act like the winners they are. Its losers who have to concern themselves with compromise and “getting along”.
Joe writes: “The fatal problem for the unborn human rights movement is the Black and Hispanic vote. This vote absolutely kills us every year.”
Sad but true.
What’s worse is that many pro-life Democrats’ careers are cut off before they can rise to city mayor or state senator, simply because of the power of the pro-abort lobby.
Perhaps we should focus on swinging 5-10 percent of the Democratic vote to the pro-life cause and electing pro-life Democrats in safely Democratic districts (not swing districts where they can take out a pro-life Republican or a compromised Republican who will nonetheless help the cause). This would pressure the “moderate independents” to reconsider their position, and it would make the pro-abort lobby look more out-of-touch for silencing qualified pro-life Democrats.
Republicans are far better on the pro-life issue, but if we’re going to win we need bi-partisan support.
Hey Gerard, I guess Hal finds truthful words to be boring, that’s why he yawns. When you stick to the truth it takes the fun out of arguing.