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Posted on 09/18/2007 4:04:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new Harris Poll finds that Republicans and young adults are the most likely groups to oppose abortion, embryonic stem cell research and assisted suicide. The survey also showed that a candidate's view on abortion is the most likely to earn a voter's opposition compared with other social issues.
The Harris Poll surveyed 2,694 adults online between August 7 and 13, and asked whether they support or abortion key social issues, including various topics of interest to the pro-life community.
Polls that break down these political issues further than a support/oppose question normally show Americans oppose abortion by a 55-45 percentage margin, are split on assisted suicide and support embryonic stem cell research but oppose taxpayer funding of it.
In the Harris Poll, the death penalty came in with the most support of any topic closely followed by embryonic stem cell research at 57 percent.
Just a bare majority (52 percent) of adults backed "abortion rights" (in what pro-life advocates say is a biased wording) while only 39 percent supported "physician assisted suicide" (which is also labeled as biased).
Breaking down the respondents into political parties and age groups, Republicans and young adults (aged 18-30) were the most likely to oppose abortion, assisted suicide and embryonic stem cell research.
Just 31 percent of Republicans back abortion and assisted suicide and only 42 percent support embryonic stem cell research.
Democrats and independent voters were more supportive of all three as were Gex-X Americans (aged 31-42) and Baby Boomers (43-61).
The Harris Poll also found that a candidate's contrasting stance on abortion would prompt 43 percent of adults to vote for another candidate.
The survey found 35 percent of adults were turned off by a difference of opinion with a candidate on embryonic stem cell research and just 19 percent said the same of assisted suicide.
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Sort of odd that there is more opposition to euthanasia than abortion. Can see how Christians would oppose both, but for atheists—just speculation—they might be pro-life, but would probably support people’s right to take ‘their own’ lives.
....they forgot about the unborn children opposing abortion!
...and young adults are the most likely groups to oppose abortion, embryonic stem cell research and assisted suicide....’
this appears to be good news...yes?
Nice to see that the younger generations are figuring it out. It could be because the boomers were all me-first and didn't pass on their attitudes to their non-existant families.
For Athiests I would think they would be deathly afraid of death for either themselves or anyone else sinc the majority believe the lie that we are all matter in motion, after that there’s nothing to them: The End!
Of couse we know that there is a hell and heaven, and that though men deserve hell, through Christ can live forever with Christ in his presence1!!..
Every generation tends to rebel against its immediate elders.
Rebellion in this instance entails rejecting the "values" of the self-centered culture of death.
Unfortunately the top leadership of many US denominations (Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Schori, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan "The fuzzy" Williams, and ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson) are all products of the baby boom.
But they are aging. Hopefully they won't be around too much longer.
.....But they are aging. Hopefully they won’t be around too much longer.....
In our benighted ultra-revisionist synod, even the younger, newly-minted pastors are feminazis and otherwise tow the ELCA (Boomer) mis-leaders’ line. That’s because they are SELECTED FOR by the cracked ELCA seminaries, quota-driven candidacy committees, and our wacko, radical synodical “bishop”.
The few orthodox pastors get bashed, including a wonderful Gen-X pastor who spoke out against the heretical “ELW” and the “gay” resolutions at the last synodical assembly. He says that several people thanked him privately, but no one dared stand up against that tyrannical “bishop”in public.
I find it very interesting that any newly-ordained pastors in our ELCA synod serve as replacements in existing (usualy dying) congregations, since no new ones (except for a couple of small immigrant ones of not-so Lutheran background) are beig formend, and other congregations are being closed or consolidated. Meanwhile, whenever our Serbian Orthodox Bishop ordains a new priest, he gets a new mission congregation to pastor. And our beloved Bishop can’t ordain them fast enough—he has to import other priests from Serbia to serve other mission congregations!!
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