Celebrate this Year's Great Victories for Life

Celebrate this Year’s Great Victories for Life
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Thanks for this article by Chuck Colson on August 22, 2011 (Breakpoint.org) titled “A reason to celebrate: 80+ pro-life laws passed this year” +++ [This is a time for good news:] +++

“During the Clinton years, 56% of Americans described themselves as pro-choice, while only 33 percent of us self-identified as pro-life. But in just a decade and a half, the numbers have completed shifted. [And this is in spite of the “Left Turn” liberal news media propaganda.]

According to the most recent Gallup polling, pro-lifers edged out those in favor of legal abortion by 47 to 45 percent. Half of all Americans agree that abortion is morally wrong.

And the news gets even better. Following a ground-breaking Nebraska law last year that bars late-term abortions because of the risk of fetal pain, five other states have passed measures outlawing nearly all abortions after five months of pregnancy. Legislatures in Kansas, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, and Oklahoma this year have enacted abortion bans after 20 or 21 weeks. The laws allow for exceptions when the mother’s life is at risk or she faces severe physical impairment.

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, but liberal activists are shocked. AP reports that late-term abortion laws “have emboldened anti-abortion activists, angered abortion providers, [except in California] and will likely make decisions all the more wrenching for women affected by the late-term bans. Not one word about the protecting of the lives of babies or supporting the choice of pregnant women to save their own children.

Who is really on the side of women in this whole distorted debate? Well most Americans aren’t buying the line of the abortion industry. According to Gallup, “majorities of Democrats as well as most Republicans favor informed consent, parental consent, 24-hour waiting periods, and a ban on “partial-birth abortion.”

[All of this in spite of the 60 Democratic CINO Politicians in Congress.]

The respected polling agency says that 87 percent of respondents favor informing a pregnant woman of the risks of having an abortion. Folks, in these contentious times, it’s hard to get 87 percent of the people to agree that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west!

Responding to this pro-life groundswell, state legislatures in 2011 have passed more than 80 bills aimed at restricting access to abortion. That’s up from 23 such laws enacted last year…

Here is some more good news. According to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, forty-six states now allow medical professionals to opt out of abortions. 43 allow some institutions to opt out. 36 require parental notification or consent for minors. 25 require waiting periods, 19 require counseling, and 16 outlaw “partial birth” abortion.

THE WHOLE MOVEMENT SHOWS US THAT WE ARE ABLE – IF WE’RE PATIENT AND PERSERVERING – TO CHANGE CULTURE, AND IT SHOULD ENCOURAGE US IN THE BATTLE OVER SO-CALLED GAY “MARRIAGE.””
George H. Kubeck