This post discusses the latest Gallup Poll result that indicates 51% of all Americans are now pro-life. The author makes the interesting point that this will actually hurt the Republican Party.
So, this story is interesting in that it reports the polling results while providing a compelling example of media "logic" to analyze.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2009/05/15/growing-anti-abortion-ranks-will-keep-republicans-marginalized/comments/
I cannot seem to follow Bonnie Erbe's logic in this post. How exactly is it that a party that advocates for an increasingly popular view is marginalized as a consequence?
ReplyDeleteIt is funny that Bonnie Erbe identifies John McCain as "a hardliner"; or, for that matter, that she thinks that McCain is 'taking over the Republican party'. I cannot decide which statement is funnier and which one is more misguided than the other.
I find it interesting that Obama also acknowledged the moral issues of abortion in his speech at Noter Dame this week. He said that we need to decrease the number of women seeking abortions and everyone applauded loudly. Why should we want to reduce the number, if it isn't a life and only a matter of rights for the mother?
ReplyDeleteErbe fails to realized that many women, if faced with the reality of being forced to carry their baby to full term, would make more careful and responsible choices regarding their behavior.
To raise fear regarding the cost of paying to care for and raise the many unwanted babies is not right. The government has grown issue and the feeling of entitlement in the lower class. Just look at the example of what social care and government payments have done in the decision by the mother of the octuplets in CA. We need less government and more personal responsibility.
Respectfully,
Jamie Herndon
I agree that it is not positive news for the conservative party. This means you have a growing number of people who agree with one of your major political platforms, yet when it comes to elections liberals are taking over. Like most issues in life, things change forcing adjustments to be made. Pro-choice vs. Pro-life may not be a make or break issue for the new generation of voters. Perhaps this article indicates a need to evaluate what platforms are drawing voters to the polls.
ReplyDelete~Ashley Lamb~
As I read the article and tried to analyze the statistics, I felt there
ReplyDeletewas a disconnect between the opinion she was stating and the evidence
being presented. History has shown fluctations in the polls regarding
Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice. These fluctations can be credited to things
such as truthfulness on the part of the participants being polled, the
education level of the participants and even the current economic status
of the polled participants. Taking into account all the varying
reasons for fluctations, I do not recall where such fluctations resulted
in the type of negative impact the author is claiming will occur to the
Republican Party.
I do believe the Republican Party maybe having a crisis of faith after
the November elections. In reading the ideology of the Republican
Party, I do not anticipate the Republican Party changing their Pro-Life
stance. Nor do I believe the stance will work against the Republican
Party as claimed in the article.
If the author would have presented more compelling evidence, my opinion
may have been different. I do believe this was a veil attempt to try
and further discredit a fundamental value of the Republican Party.
Vicki Mendoza