Aborting ‘Pro-Choice,’ Promoting ‘Nuance’

[Valin]

The American Spectator:

Forty years after Roe, Planned Parenthood is calling for changes in its PR strategy.

Janice Shaw Crouse & Mario Diaz

1.22.13

 

As the United States –– with over a million abortions a year, one of the highest abortion rates among Western industrialized nations –– prepares to recognize the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion activists are quietly launching a new public relations strategy. Planned Parenthood, after admitting to selected reporters that the “pro-choice” label has lost its appeal, is moving to more “nuanced” language that conveys the “complicated” nature of abortion. The need for an abortion, claims Planned Parenthood, is “situational” and “depends on an individual’s circumstances.” Since no one else can know those situations or circumstances, Planned Parenthood has declared (with its superior standards of morality) that it is “wrong to make a judgment” about aborting a baby.

 

It appears that Planned Parenthood is responding to a Gallup poll: Americans now tilt pro-life by 9 percentage points, polling 50 percent pro-life to 41 percent pro-choice –– a record low for pro-choice support. Even more ominous is the fact that 42 anti-abortion measures were enacted in 25 states during 2012. One abortion advocate described the pro-life victories as “death by a thousand tiny cuts.” As a result, abortion advocates are facing criticisms in their own camp that they are “tone-deaf” to the “current reality.” Former NARAL president Nancy Keenan, in a stark assessment of the pro-choice movement, said it suffered from “waning enthusiasm and aging leadership,” whereas the expanding pro-life movement is “energetic and intense.” Its own critics acknowledge that the abortion industry’s extreme positions and their radicalism have alienated all but the die-hard, unquestioning loyalists and caused those in the uncommitted middle to avoid being associated with the label “pro-choice.”

 

 

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Here Is The Problem With Polls Or at least relying too heavily on them.

[Valin]

Roe v Wade in three charts

 

 

 

[SrWoodchuck]

Planned Barrenhood aborted 915 babies @ day in 2011 alone [333,964]. Your 54 miilion number, since Roe vs.Wade, is just staggering. How can anyone put the Newton massacre in perspective, when this genocide [black genocide @ 40%] continues? Between blacks gunning blacks down & blacks aborting black babies....you'd think someone would have an epiphany. What would Marty do? The pre-coronation church visit [where Obama tweeted during the service] also had Planned Barrenhood's top killer as an honored guest...