{"id":4296,"date":"2014-08-19T23:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:50:31","slug":"pro-life-anti-everything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2014\/08\/19\/pro-life-anti-everything-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life, anti- everything else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/religionhurtshumanity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tea-party-ted-meme-pro-life.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This meme is pretty powerful because it is so accurate. I can never understand how pro-lifers are very often pro-gun, anti-universal healthcare and so on. There is a disconnect there, for sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/religionhurtshumanity.com\/2014\/07\/poll-claims-percentage-of-pro-life-voters-at-all-time-high\/\">Religion Hurts Humanity<\/a> blog recently posted this on a survey\u00a0about pro-life attitudes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">A newly released survey conducted between June 30<sup>th<\/sup>, and July 1<sup>st<\/sup>, claims that Americans who identify as pro-life are at an all time high. The poll by Rasmussen Reports says that 44 percent of voters are pro-life; previously American pro-life voters ranged between 35 and 43 percent of the population. The poll also claims that pro-choice Americans have decreased in number from 56 percent in March of 2013 to 48 percent currently. Others remain undecided on the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">According to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #b0050d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/abortion\/48_are_pro_choice_44_pro_life\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rasmussen Reports<\/span><\/a>, many Americans call themselves pro-choice, but actually have pro-life opinions when asked about abortion in general terms. \u201cFifty-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,\u201d the Rasmussen report said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Other statistics from the survey include the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">39 percent of voters believe abortions are too easily accessible in the United States.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">49 percent of Americans said there should be a waiting period to get an abortion.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">44 percent of respondents agreed with banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">71 percent of respondents who identified as Evangelical Christians were pro-life.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">64 percent of voters said that abortion affects how they will vote in the next election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t the greatest news for liberal types like myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This meme is pretty powerful because it is so accurate. I can never understand how pro-lifers are very often pro-gun, anti-universal healthcare and so on. There is a disconnect there, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>The Religion Hurts Humanity blog recently posted this on a survey about pro-life attitudes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,362],"tags":[129,1400,157],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality","category-politics","category-religion-and-society","tag-abortion","tag-pro-life","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}