Americans Grow in Moral Views

For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

With the first pro-choice president in eight years already making
changes to the nation's policies on funding abortion overseas, expressing his
support for the Freedom of Choice Act, and moving toward rescinding federal job
protections for medical workers who refuse to participate in abortion
procedures, Americans -- and, in particular, Republicans -- seem to be taking a
step back from the pro-choice position. However, the retreat is evident among
political moderates as well as conservatives.

Majority rule does not a moral truth make. But moral truth can be supported by a majority of people, and it seems like America is finally going in the right direction. There are no morally clear arguments (I repeat, zero morally clear arguments) that should make the practice of abortion-on-demand legal. Only in extreme and rare circumstances (incest, life of mother at stake, and debatably rape), should abortion be allowable.

The only argument at stake is whether the person inside the womb is a person. And the person is a person. The person has a uniquely identifiable DNA which is different from both mother or father outright, and is in need of no other additions to qualify him/herself as a person with constitutional protections. These persons have a right not to be murdered. A woman's right to choose does not and should not supercede a baby's right to live. Any other argument is a sideshow (ie "making abortion illegal would create a dangerous black market for abortion," which by the way commits the logical fallacy of question-begging because it assumes that the person inside the womb is not, in fact, a person because killing a person is indeed a dangerous market already).

I grow so sick and tired of a general liberal consensus which considers my view unenlightened, behind-the-times, and religious-in-nature only. These are bad arguments. And for the first time in Gallup's case, a majority of Americans finally disagree with the absurd liberal consensus. Let's now translate these conclusions into state laws and legitimate constitutional protections.

For the most clear, logical, and truthful arguments in favor of the pro-life position (without an overt religious tone) consult Francis Beckwith's book called Defending Life.