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What Does the Pro-Life Label Mean?
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Exactly what does "pro-life" mean? That's the main question I have after reading the latest Gallup numbers on the proportion of Americans who call themselves pro-life.
Three months ago, for the first time since since Gallup began asking this question in 1995, a majority of Americans (52 percent) called themselves pro-life, according to the quarterly Gallup survey. It was the cause of much celebration in the anti-abortion movement.
Today, Gallup's latest poll find that those numbers have balanced out--46 percent of adults Americans surveyed say they're pro-choice and 47 percent say they're pro-life.
As Mark Silk at Spiritual Politics points out, "pro-life" appears to mean different things to different people. But the reality is, as he points out, roughly 60 percent of Americans who call themselves pro-life believe that abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances.
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August 7, 2009; 5:04 PM ET
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Many people currently equates pro-life/choice as political issue and religious/non-religious issue. This is wrong. Actually, this is a conscientious dilemma within every human heart, regardless of political view or religious view.
As more and more people learn about this dilemma of humanity, spend the time to think about it, with empathy, they would start to sympathize for both the unborn baby and mom. They would start to look for solution. The only doable and most optimal solution to remove this dilemma is to educate the society so every person consciously not become victim of this dilemma and abortion becomes unnecessary.
As we all spend time to understand this dilemma, use their empathy, realize that abortion is preventable in almost all cases, we will turn into pro-life automatically. My observation is that this change of heart is happening in more and more people’s heart. Let’s not stop educating people about this issue.