Half of voters want abortion ruling upheld, poll finds

Newsday.com ^ | December 15, 2004, 9:56 AM EST | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN

[Ed Current]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A majority of voters want to know in advance how a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on abortion and half want President Bush to nominate justices who would uphold the decision making abortion legal, a poll released Wednesday found.

[Bogey78O]

An unbiased headline would be "Recent poll shows even split on Roe v Wade"

[RJL]

A majority of voters want to know in advance how a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court would rule on abortion and half want President Bush to nominate justices who would uphold the decision making abortion legal, a poll released Wednesday found.

Newsday and John Christoffersen are slipping; the abortion folks always claim 80% of the people want unfettered abortions.

[Raquel]

"...Bush should nominate justices who would uphold the Roe v. Wade decision making abortion legal in the first three months of pregnancy." The problem is abortion is legal at any stage of pregnancy for any reason. The polling is skewed. But, what can you expect from the liberal media. They're being disingenuous as usual. I've read that the majority of people under 30 are pro-life. I think they realize that their lives, by law, could have just as easily been snuffed out, as their aborted counterparts.

[Ed Current]

There is another consideration. When society arbitrarily classifies which human beings are worthy of legal protection, those who are presently protected may find that one day they aren't.

Euthanasia is currently a crime. It will soon be a right—a right for which relatives can sue, and which they will use with a clear conscience to put their old parents out of their misery. ^{City Journal Summer 2000 | Animal Rights by Roger Scruton}

[cpforlife.org]

"Oh, please."

Wow Hildy, you've utterly destroyed Ed Current's posts and the so called "facts" and "logic" with that devastating response. Such a powerful and incontrovertible refutation of the "biology" and mountains of "evidence"

Maybe abortion is not so bad after all. Yes. Yes. It's all so...so...clear to me now.

[supercat]

Yea, like you care about the women's mental health.

The courts have effectively ruled that if someone claims a particular pregnancy might damage a woman's mental health the woman must be allowed an abortion. Since one could make that claim about any pregnancy, this in practice means that almost no restriction whatsoever can be enforced.

[cpforlife.org]

Please let me know if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

[Puppage]

That's a damn good point!!!

[Lexinom]

I've seen that for fifteen years. It is especially true if you live in a blue state.

[Raquel]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299523/posts?q=1&&page=151

See my post No. 171.

[presidentbowen]

Only half...not everyone...

[presidentbowen]

Oh please yourself troll...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Abortion is a ritual murder before an idol of one's own vanity upon the altar of conceit...

[CindyDawg]

Are we a democracy, now?

[cpforlife.org]

Very well stated, Sir Francis.

[Bellflower]

95% have no idea what Roe v. Wade ruled, and don't understand that if Roe were overturned, it wouldn't make abortion illegal, but simply send the issue back to the states to decide, as intended by the Founders.

I don't think the founders intended for some states to be able to legalize the murder of innocent babies. The right to life is a inalienable right guaranteed first by The Creator and second by the Constitution of The United States of America. It was a mistake to relegate the "right" to kill to the states in the past. The fact that some states were allowing the murder of innocent babies opened the door for it to be propagated in this country on the level of a full fledged holocaust. In truth even one innocent, defenseless baby being murdered is a travesty that should be unthinkable to any decent person as I am sure it was to our founding fathers.

[Hildy]

Troll? LOL.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping. (Please note that I lost a lot of the names on this list, so anyone wanting (back) on, ping me!)

I didn't believe the headline; turns out it is a push poll and as such, not to be trusted. After all, look at how accurate Zogby was about the election.

Polls are largely just pre-chewed propaganda. Trying to influence people who can't/don't think for themselves.

It's important because (a) Bush will be appointing one or more justices to the Supreme Court and (b) Abortion is the holiest of holies to the leftists. It is interesting to deeply consider why this is.

Let me know about wanting on/off this pinglist.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Abortion is a ritual murder before an idol of one's own vanity upon the altar of conceit...

If Roe v. Wade says society has no right to intervene in private reproductive choices, then public funding for abortion is illegal.

And, since this is true, why does the left whine about the mythical separation of church and state?

The whole idea of "separation of church and state" as a body of law comes from "Reynolds v. United States" where it was made clear by the court that marriage could be regulated by statute alone.

Advocates of homosexual marriage are seeking a ceremonious sanctification for their idolatries of perversion, they want an esoteric absolution to justify their guilt-ridden egos.

Logic works and you can make valid secular argument to support Mosaic Law. (This is why the Left attacks the Ten Commandments.)

[AFPhys]

Hildy is most DEFINITELY NOT a troll.