Gallup Reports Shift Toward Life
Posted
by Jim Daly on Jun 14, 2012 6:00:44 AM
According
to the Gallup polling organization
more Americans are identifying themselves as “pro-life” and fewer as
“pro-choice,” this year over last year.
As
reported:
The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as
"pro-choice" is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point
below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty
percent now call themselves "pro-life," one point shy of the record
high, also from May 2009.
To be
fair, these statistics have been bouncing around over the last decade, but when
you consider that 56% of Americans qualified themselves as “pro-choice” in
1996, the trajectory toward a majority support of life is encouraging.
I
have long thought that in addition to having truth on our side when it comes to
the subject of the sanctity of life, we also have science and technology. No
longer can it be suggested that a pre-born baby is just a blob of tissue. The
world can now see thanks to ultrasound imagery what we have long said, mainly
that a baby begins to develop critical organs such as the brain, heart, lungs
and spinal cord much earlier than originally thought.
Even
for skeptics, there is no question. It is a baby. It is a person.
After so many years and the loss of so many
lives to the scourge of abortion, it’s easy to grow discouraged. It may seem at
times like our culture has lost its way, but God has not lost control.
We must capitalize on these encouraging trends
and continue our quest until every life is protected under law. Yes, it’s going
to take time, but I’ve always appreciated the long-suffering perspective of Dr.
Martin Luther King who once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but
it bends toward justice.”
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