March for Life: Changing minds, changing hearts
Several hundred thousand people are in Washington, DC, today for the annual March for Life event. Americans are being asked to remember that African-Americans are special targets for abortion.
National and state lawmakers continue to press for legislation to limit abortion, set health and safety standards for abortuaries, and work to end abortion completely. Clenard H. Childress, Jr. of the Life, Education and Resource Network (LEARN), tells OneNewsNow that’s laudable, but progress really should be measured by changing hearts one at a time.
Americans favor restrictions on abortionThere’s more evidence that even those Americans who support abortion are listening to and responding to the pro-life message.Knights of Columbus commissioned a Marist Poll as they do each year at this time on the subject of public acceptance of abortion. Carol Tobias of the National Right to Life Committee has taken a look at the latestpublic opinion survey.Tobias“Once again they found that a majority of Americans – an overwhelming majority of Americans – do not support the way abortion is practiced in this country today where unborn children can be killed by abortion up through the ninth month of pregnancy for any reason,” she shares.In fact, 81 percent of Americans said it should be limited to the first trimester of pregnancy; and 77 percent agreed that pro-life laws protect both the child and mother.Tobias notes that even those who support abortion believe there should be limits. She lists several.“Time limit – that abortion should be limited to the first couple of months of pregnancy; or they think abortion should be prohibited when the unborn child has reached that stage of development where she can feel pain,” says the pro-life leader.“They don’t think tax dollars should be used to pay for abortion. They would think that parents should be notified before their minor daughter can get an abortion.”And that, she argues, sends a message to politicians seeking office. Tobias says Democrats tend to support abortion on demand, but won’t say it on the campaign trail because the view of the strong majority of Americans has changed. |