Friday, May 14, 2010

According To Gallup More Americans Calling Themselves Pro-Life (Updated)

The Corner has story. Still a long way to go. That number should be much higher.

Update
Contentions had this good observation on these numbers.

This is a great failing of the pro-choice movement, which has been content to operate with the benefit of a judicial monopoly on the issue and has failed to make its case with the American people. Pro-life forces, by contrast and with the aid of new technology, have been able to pull Americans to their side of the debate. What is now sustaining the abortion-on-demand regimen is the Supreme Court’s judicial fiat. Without that, Americans would devise some diverse compromises on a state-by-state basis, as they do for many areas of public policy. The degree to which judicial activism has pre-empted that is clearer now than it has ever been

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