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“Pro Lifers At All Time High”
by Prophecy New Watch
July 22nd, 2014

Are the unborn able to receive news while still within their wombs, interpret it and actually react to it? The notion isn’t quite as far-fetched as it sounds. The Bible gives us an account when this actually happened, when Elizabeth and Mary were both respectively pregnant with John the Baptist and Jesus Christ:

Now Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

Well, there is more good news that perhaps today’s unborn children would leap for joy for, if they heard about it: The percentage of American voters who call themselves pro-life is at an all-time high, according to a new national survey from Rasmussen Reports. A recent report on the survey was recently published by lifenews.com and listed key findings.

According to the Lifenews.com report, some Americans who take a pro-life position on abortion still confusingly call themselves pro-choice. Also, Americans asked about abortion in general without using the two popular terms, take a pro-life perspective. The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 30 – July 1, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Highlights extracted from the Rasmussen Reports included in the lifenews.com article are as follows:

1. The percentage of pro-choice voters is down from March’s all-time high of 56% and is the lowest level measured in the past year. 48% of Likely U.S. Voters now consider themselves pro-choice.

2. Prior to the latest survey, the number of pro-life voters ranged from 35% to 43%, and has now increased to 44%.

3. Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters now consider abortion to be morally wrong most of the time, up slightly from 49% in March but also the highest finding since August 2012. Thirty-two percent (32%) believe abortion is morally acceptable in most cases, while 16% are undecided.

4. Forty-nine percent (49%) think there should be a mandatory waiting period before a woman is allowed to get an abortion, which ties January’s recent high. Thirty-seven percent (37%) disagree. Fourteen percent (14%) are not sure.

5. Voters by a 49% to 39% margin agree with this past week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case that business owners should be able to opt out of the new health care law’s requirement that they provide health insurance with free contraception if it violates their religious beliefs.

6. Sixty-four percent (64%) of voters view abortion as at least somewhat important to how they will vote in the next congressional election, including 34% who say it is Very Important. Thirty percent (30%) say the issue is not important to their vote, including 11% who say it is Not At All Important. These findings, too, are in line with past polling. As is usually the case, pro-life voters place more importance on abortion as a voting issue than pro-choice voters do.

7. One year ago after several states advanced new restrictive abortion laws, 44% of voters favored a ban on abortion after 20 weeks. Forty-one percent (41%) opposed such a ban.

8. Unaffiliated voters by a 48% to 41% margin lean toward being pro-choice.

9. Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters think it is too easy to get an abortion in the United States today, while 21% believe it is too hard. One-in-four voters (25%) think the level of difficulty in getting an abortion is about right, while 16% more are not sure. These findings are generally in line with past surveys.

10. Forty-nine percent (49%) of women are pro-choice, while 40% are pro-life. Men are more closely divided on the question. Fifty percent (50%) of women still believe abortion is morally wrong in most cases, compared to 54% of men. Women are slightly more likely to see abortion as a Very Important voting issue.

11. Republicans place more importance on abortion as a voting issue than Democrats and voters not affiliated with either party do. Most GOP voters (66%) are pro-life, while most Democrats (63%) are pro-choice.

12. Seventy-one percent (71%) of Evangelical Christians and 56% of Catholics are pro-life, but majorities of voters of other faiths are pro-choice.

Based on the poll, it can be deduced that the first eight viewpoint statistics generally work in favour of protecting the God-ordained rights of the unborn to live, while the rest seem to either favor pro-choice or are somewhat balanced between the two options.

Should the unborn be “leaping in joy” over this news? Not entirely, and perhaps not until every last unborn child is safe from the abortionists. The unborn may have more friends in America today, but their enemies remain resolute.

Meanwhile, those professing to be pro-life must go beyond mere words and expressing their preferences: they must go the extra mile to do whatever they can to guard the sanctity of life, whether born or unborn.

We would all do well to heed the wisdom of Edmund Burke: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. The Bible fully agrees:

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Galatians. 6:7).

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