Abortion Support Drops

Reuter's reports on the dip in support for abortion rights. Excerpt:

The findings by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center come as the polarizing issue has been injected in the debate around reforming health care, which is Obama's top domestic priority.

In polls in 2007 and 2008, supporters of legal abortion clearly outnumbered opponents. "Now ... there have been modest increases in the numbers who favor reducing abortions or making them harder to obtain," the organization said.

In 2007 and 2008 Pew found that supporters of abortion rights outnumbered those saying it should be illegal in most or all cases by 54 to 40 percent.

This year, two surveys of 5,500 adults found 47 percent supporting legal abortion with 44 percent opposed.

I chuckled at the earlier point the Obama's election "has reassured Democrats that abortion rights are secure." It's worth noting that everybody from Ponnuru to Reuter's assumes that the Democrats are the abortion people.

Of course, I wish we could for once properly identify the group who benefits from "abortion rights" the most, i.e., dudes who bang chicks, knock 'em up, then obtain legal abortions for them. ("Whew... that was a close one, dude!") Whenever you hear people spouting nonsense like "Oh, all you want to do is criminalize women who get abortions," point out that the much celebrated liberated women are not the only ones who would be "criminalized" were abortion illegal in certain states. So would the men pressuring the confused women to obtain an illegal procedure. Say "I want to criminalize the men responsible," and watch their jaws shut, at least momentarily. Yes, a man is required to make a baby, Mr. Know-it-all.