News From Nevada LIFE
October 17, 2009
CDC Report Says Abortion Down. Pro-life Cause Makes
Substantial Gains.
Pro-Life Strategy Working.
This week's CDC report illustrates
the substantial gains the pro-life movement has achieved
in recent years. Other special interest groups can only
dream of these gains.
CDC Report Says Abortion Down. Pro-life Cause Makes
Substantial Gains
Dear Right To Life Friend,
Yesterday's
CDC report shows that the abortion rate- the number
of women having abortions, is down 33 percent. This
shows that our hard fought pro-life efforts and strategy
are paying off.
It's common to hear people say
pro-lifers haven't accomplished anything since we still
have Roe v. Wade. That's nonsense. Other special
interest groups can only dream of the successes we've
had.
Not only has the abortion rate gone down in the last two
decades, the abortion ratio-the ratio of abortions per
thousand pregnancies has declined. The number of
abortions is down twenty-five percent even as our
population has risen by tens of millions!
We're also changing the culture on
abortion.
Poll after poll shows that America is pro-life and
that a majority would oppose almost all abortions except
rape and incest (less than 1 percent) and the life of
the mother.
Better news it that we are winning
the next generation. Two-thirds of graduating seniors in
2006 said that
abortion is always or almost always morally wrong
(p. 13, Q 4 in link). More and more women and men are
willing to talk about their abortions negative impact,
ultra sound leaves no doubt what the unborn is, abortion
advocates gripe about the hundreds and hundreds of
abortion curbing laws in the 50 states, there are more
crisis pregnancy centers than abortion clinics, and
fewer and fewer doctors willing to do abortions.
There's more. The 2007 partial birth
abortion decision upheld the constitutionality of the
first federal ban on abortions of any kind since Roe.
This sends a loud message that abortion is not absolute
and there are limits to abortion and abortion can be
limited.
Even President Obama's difficulties
show our strength. If our gains were not so deep, he
would not blatantly misrepresent his abortion record or
deny that health care reform bills do not fund abortion.
This shows that it's wrong to say
pro-lifers haven't gotten or achieved anything because
we still have Roe. We're moving forward, but our
progress has been hard earned and hard learned. We
learned the hard way that there are no magic bullets.
Our early and sometimes recent all or nothing
propositions fell short. But that hasn't stopped our
progress or lessened our resolve. It's only delayed the
inevitable victory that will see every unborn child
protected in law and welcome in life.
The patient persistence and genius
of pro-life guiding lights like National Right to Life's
Doug Johnson brought us this progress with the same
patience and persistence as William Wilberforce.
Wilberforce was the British statesman who valiantly
defended the emancipation of slaves. His early efforts
to ban slavery failed. But he eventually saw slavery and
the slave trade end in Britain by chipping and chipping
away until there was nothing left but to ban it after a
lifetime of effort.
We are on the same road to victory.
The battle is tough, but the slow steady progress adds
up. Millions are alive today because of that steady
progress. There's more to be done and more progress to
come.
