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RECENT POLLS SHOW PRO-ABORTION
CONGRESS OUT OF STEP WITH
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, TURNING DEAF EAR TO PUBLIC
OPINION
WASHINGTON – A new poll released
today by the Pew Research Center for the People
and the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion and
Life finds that more Americans are revealing
that they are opposed to most or all abortions.
The poll found that 45% of American’s oppose
abortion in most or all cases, up 4% from last
year.
“These results
are unsurprising and track with earlier polling,
including Gallup, and, most recently, a poll
conducted by Rasmussen indicating that the
majority of Americans are opposed to funding
abortions in the healthcare bill,” said
David N. O’Steen, Ph.D., executive director of
the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).
Despite consistent polling
demonstrating that Americans don’t want
government funding of abortions, pro-abortion
Democrats in Congress have voted down pro-life
amendments seeking to remove abortion funding in
the healthcare bills currently working their way
through the House and the Senate.
Added O’Steen,
“Just as the country is becoming
more and more pro-life, the pro-abortion
Democratic Congressional leadership is pushing
to remake the entire American healthcare system
in a way that would provide massive funding for
abortion. Clearly, that is not what Americans
want.”
In a Rasmussen poll conducted in
September, they found that 48% of Americans want
abortion coverage prohibited in
government-subsidized plans, compared to only
13% who would want it to be required. Results
from a Public Opinion Strategies poll also found
a majority opposing the government-funding of
abortions in the healthcare bill.
“Bills currently
advancing in Congress would establish direct
federal funding of elective abortion, and tax
subsidies for private insurance that covers
elective abortions -- both drastic breaks from
longstanding federal policy,"
said Douglas Johnson, Federal Legislation
director for the National Right to Life
Committee.
"The proposed new pro-abortion programs are
badly out of sync with public opinion, which is
why Congressional Democratic leaders and
President Obama are trying to smuggle them into
law behind smokescreens of contrived language
and outright misrepresentations."
The National Right to Life
Committee, the nation’s largest pro-life group,
is a federation of affiliates in all 50 states
and 3,000 local chapters nationwide.
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