15 Reasons Why the Pro-Life Movement is Winning on Abortion

Life News ^ | 7/16/14 | Jill Stanek

[wagglebee]

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade in January 2013, Time magazine published a surprising and iconic cover story about how the pro-choice side has been losing ever since it thought it won in 1973. The reasons Time listed were spot on:

1. Pro-life laws
2. Public sentiment
3. Pro-abortion generational in-fighting
4. Playing defense (defending the status quo)
5. Science
6. Stigma
7. Aging abortionists

Indeed, abortion advocates have been in an admitted state of panic for quite some time over building pro-life momentum.

But within the past several days two abortion advocates have separately admitted their side is losing…

• “It’s not just Hobby Lobby: the pro-life movement is winning” ~Sarah Kliff, formerly of the Washington Post, now senior editor at Vox.com
• “Ten reasons women are losing while gays keep winning” ~Dr. Jay Michaelson at The Daily Beast.

Other recent abortion articles have hit on the same theme…

• “How bad medicine is sweeping the country, one state at a time” ~Tara Culp-Ressler at Think Progress
• “Pro-life movement winning the battle over abortion, birth control accessibility” ~Jessica VanEgeren at The Cap Times

Here are 15 reasons why abortion proponents think pro-lifers are crushing them, as lifted from the aforementioned abortion articles. A couple were included in Time’s list, but most are in addition:

1. Obama’s election and reelection prompted pro-life groups to focus on state avenues to pass legislation rather than federal.
2. Due to the Republican wave of 2010, in part in response to Obama’s election in 2008, there has indeed been a huge spike in pro-life laws passed on the state level - 226 since 2011, more than the entire previous three decades combined.
3. The convoluted passage of Obamacare in 2010 was “rocket fuel” to the pro-life movement, writes Kliff, quoting Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest, which led to the introduction of some of those bills.
4. A profusion of abortion clinic closures, 81 in 2013 alone, according to Operation Rescue. The number of abortion clinics has decreased by 73% to 759 from a high of 2,176 in 1991.
5. Moves to defund Planned Parenthood.
6. The Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.
7. The Supreme Court’s buffer zone decision.
8. The abortion lobby’s inability to reframe the debate into one about discrimination. “Unfortunately, even the name ‘pro-choice’ reinforces that the movement is about acts and not identity,” writes Michaelson.
9. The abortion lobby’s inability to reframe the issue into one all can relate to.
10. The abortion lobby’s shortage of poster children. Sandra Fluke, for instance, was a dud.
11. Their opponents (us!) are “sophisticated… smart and methodical,” according to Michaelson.
12. Even liberals as a political body aren’t united in support of abortion, because as Michaelson admits, “Abortion is a kind of murder.” Ew.
13. No Fortune 500 corporations are lining up to support abortion, as they are with the homosexual lobby, which would bring “movement dollars and public awareness,” writes Michaelson.
14. “Feminism has an image problem,” writes Michaelson.
15. Religion: “Secular arguments about the separation of church and state may play well to the base,” writes Michaelson. “But they don’t move the middle.”

In a nutshell, quoting VanEgeren:

Whether it’s through hundreds of laws passed at the state level or the recent Hobby Lobby decision that allows companies to deny birth control coverage to employees on religious grounds, the pro-life movement is on a winning streak over access to abortions and birth control.

“It’s kind of like waiting for the other shoe to drop,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager with the Guttmacher Institute, a think-tank focused on sexual and reproductive health policy. “I’m not entirely sure what will happen next.”

Well, here’s another shoe, impossible for abortion proponents to fill. Quoting Sarah Weddington (pictured), the lawyer who successfully persuaded the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade, speaking at an event on July 12, via KnoxNews.com:

“Today, the young people are so much further (along) than I was at their age,” she said. “They speak more languages. They go on more trips. They have to show me how to use my iPhone … but one of the things we haven’t quite managed to do is to give them the same burning motivation to change things that we believe are wrong in the way that we did.”

In other words, the pro-choice crowd has no rear guard. They killed them.

LifeNews.com Note: Jill Stanek fought to stop “live birth abortions” after witnessing one as an RN at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. That led to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act legislation, signed by President Bush, that would ensure that proper medical care be given to unborn children who survive botched abortion attempts.

[TheOldLady]

That is the faulty argument of the morally squishy leftist, have-their-cake-and-eat-it-too crowd.

All babies in the womb are innocent, and a lot of people who were raised by Democrats (ahem,
cough) came to realize that Godly Conservatism is the only way to live a decent life.

My husband and I were both red diaper babies, and now we are both staunch Conservatives.

How wrong our parents were.

[wagglebee]

Freakonomics made the same argument. The whole of the Dem party platform is based on it.

It's Darwinian eugenics, it's been the hallmark of the left for over a century.

There is this utopian mindset that if certain elements of society are simply killed off, the world will be a wonderful place.

Sanger and a few others got the ball rolling with the idea that preventing the birth of these "undesirables" would do the trick and then Hitler came along and decided that it made just as much sense to kill the "undesirables" who had already been born.

It's a very slippery slope, but once society decides that things would be better if certain groups of people didn't exist, it always ends badly.

[wagglebee]

What is riding in this cultural war is not abortion alone, but our economic system and personal liberties.

Hey asshole, an innocent American baby is murdered EVERY 24 SECONDS. What about he personal liberty of the 57 MILLION VICTIMS OF THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST?

Your post implies that abortion has a black racial dimension, I say yes based on political demographic facts, but not from what your post implies, that I am racially motivated to kill blacks with abortion. Racist no, but I am guilty of being a cold calculating strategic bastard.

No, you're just a bastard.

In terms of winning the war to preserve our free economic system and personal liberties thru close elections, it may be a necessary and useful evil tool to let our enemies inflict on themselves and limit their growth in numbers.

That's your thesis, that abortion is a "necessary and useful" tool? Hell, Hillary's "safe and legal and rare" answer was better than that.

I guess this is your opus?

[ansel12]

Abortion has played a behind the scene role (past behvior has come to haunt their present situation). Your post implies that abortion has a black racial dimension, I say yes based on political demographic facts, but not from what your post implies, that I am racially motivated to kill blacks with abortion. Racist no, but I am guilty of being a cold calculating strategic bastard. Wars are won with strategy and tactics, and not principles alone. In terms of winning the war to preserve our free economic system and personal liberties thru close elections, it may be a necessary and useful evil tool to let our enemies inflict on themselves and limit their growth in numbers.

I think you are freaking us out, you need some professional help.

[Jim Robinson]

well, bye

[wagglebee]

Thanks Jim.

[Responsibility2nd]

...but I am guilty of being a cold calculating strategic bastard. Wars are won with strategy and tactics, and not principles alone.

If conservatvies abandon their principles; their core values and beliefs, then we are no better than the liberals. Especially when it comes to allowing "the enemy" as you put it, to kill their children by the millions.

[wagglebee]

I think you are freaking us out, you need some professional help.

That last post looked like something from Stormfront.

[redgolum]

It did.

It also looked like quite a few foreign policy sites, a few academic sites, and so on.

Heck, there was an official in the news a few months back saying we need to sterilize all people with Type I diabetes. Which would end the Navajo tribe as we know it.

[BykrBayb]

Wags, you have such a wonderful way with words.

[TheOldLady]

I thought that 668 The Neighbor of the Beast was a woman.

She gave her handle to a guy? Good grief.

[BykrBayb]

You have a REALLY good way with words. You sure get your money’s worth out of each one. :)

[BykrBayb]

I never knew that. I always thought 668 was just a nice guy.

[wagglebee]

Oh? I thought maybe I went a bit overboard. :-)

[TheOldLady]

So long, Fee (Posting History)
Hat Tip to wagglebee, who pinged me
FReeper from the Class of 2000 goes crazy and advocates for baby killing
For Leftists only, feels it's only fair that the "bad guys" abort their own children
A hot ride to the old town tonight ensued and Viking Kitties feast


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[Responsibility2nd]

You remember 668? A lot of people do. That was more than a few years ago.

So long ago, that my memory of a guy or gal is too fuzzy.

[lonevoice]

I agree. One of the strangest examples of self-immolation I’ve seen.

[TheOldLady]

We had a few friendly exchanges, but nothing long-lasting. I had no idea that
she was gone, nor that she had given? sold? her handle away to someone else.

FReepers come and go, and there are thousands of people here at any given
time. Hard to keep track. ;-)

[Gefn]

Is that particular Viking baby kitten available for adoption? I have some milk and sardines I would be happy to feed the growing warrior and hunter.

Those Zots look like more fun for him than the red dot.

You all made my day with this particular graphic, and I thank you all for it.

[wagglebee]

FReepers come and go, and there are thousands of people here at any given time. Hard to keep track.

Yep, but there's only ONE Grand Inquisitor!