Americans Say Abortion is Wrong, Dems Don't

Yet another poll, this one by pro-abortion National Public Radio, shows that most Americans believe abortion is wrong, including two-thirds of younger adults. Meanwhile, a Democrat pollster claims Americans are tired of hearing about abortion.

For background, read Pro-life Trends Continue in American Opinion: Poll and also read the linked series of previous polls

-- From "NPR Poll: 59% of Americans Say Having an Abortion is Wrong" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 6/3/11

NPR asked “do you personally believe having an abortion is wrong” and 59.3 percent of Americans polled said yes compared with just 40.7 percent who said no. The youngest age category of those polled, under 35, gave the most pro-life responses with 65.5 percent saying that having an abortion is wrong.

The NPR survey also asked, “Would you like to see abortion laws in this country made…more strict; less strict; remain the same?” The survey found 45.9% wanted the laws more strict while 54.1 percent wanted the laws to stay the same. The results make it clear that some Americans believe abortion laws are more strict than they are currently — as the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision made it so abortion is essentially available at any point in pregnancy for any reason. As was the case with other questions, those under 35 gave the most pro-life response — with 54.6 percent wanting to make abortion laws more strict.

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From "More Good Polling Results, this time from NPR" by Dave Andrusko, National Right to Life 6/3/11

31.6% [under age 35] said abortion should be illegal in most cases and another 25.5% said abortion should be illegal in all cases—a total of a 57.1%.

[The survey asked,] “Say someone buys private health insurance using government assistance to help pay for it. Do you think insurance sold that way should or should not be allowed to include coverage for abortions?”

A whopping 58% said no, it shouldn’t (64.% of those under 35) to only 42% who said yes.

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From "Poll: Public tired of abortion debate" by Kate Nocera, Politico 6/2/11

Americans are growing tired of the abortion debate and want to move on to a broader discussion about reproductive health, a new survey by a Democratic polling firm finds.

The poll, conducted by Lake Partners, found that Americans feel Congress has focused too much on abortion and not enough on things like preventive care, reproductive health and expanding access to birth control.

The poll was commissioned by the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, an organization that represents family planning administrators and clinicians, and the Communications Consortium Media Center, a public interest media center that works with nonprofits.

The debate over family planning earlier this year could have broader implications for politicians, the poll finds. Four in 10 Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who votes to defund groups like Planned Parenthood.

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From "Poll: Americans are tired of abortion debate" by Ashley Lopez, Florida Independent 6/3/11

. . . subjects in the survery were asked if they agreed with the following statement:

While the current political debate focuses too much on abortion, there is a much broader discussion that needs to happen around reproductive health. We may have different opinions about abortion, so rather than continuing to argue about this one issue, our elected officials should focus on the broader context like providing greater access to birth control, teaching comprehensive sex education and improving maternal health and childbirth outcomes. These are issues that will allow us to come together.

Seventy-nine percent of adults agreed with the statement, with 49 percent agreeing “strongly.”

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Tea Party is Racist Christians, says NPR Exec

"The Tea Party is fanatically involved in people's personal lives and very fundamental Christian — I wouldn't even call it Christian. It's this weird evangelical kind of move."
— Ron Schiller, Senior VP for Development, National Public Radio

UPDATE 3/10/11: NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller resigns in wake of anti-Christian comments

-- From "NPR exec: tea party is ‘scary,’ ‘racist’" by Keach Hagey, Politico 3/8/11

James O’Keefe, master of the video sting, targets NPR this time, in a pretty damaging interview with Ron Schiller, NPR’s senior vice president for development, and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving.

O’Keefe’s compatriots, Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar, posed as members of a Muslim group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that wants to give NPR $5 million in light of the recent Republican threats to defund public broadcasting.

In the course of a lunch at Café Milano, Schiller presents himself as a liberal who thinks the tea party is “scary” and that there are not enough Muslim voices on the American airwaves, nodding as his lunchmates say they are glad NPR allows Hamas's and Hezbollah's views to be heard.

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From "James O'Keefe records former NPR executives on secret video" by Melissa Bell, Washington Post 3/8/11

In the video, NPR Foundation's senior VP for development Ron Schiller and senior director of institutional giving Betsy Liley talk to the donors about Juan Williams, anti-intellectualism and the tea party, which Schiller calls "a weird evangelical kind of move ... seriously racist."

"James O'Keefe catches NPR fundraiser talking exactly like a conservative nightmare of what NPR sounds like," Dave Weigel at Slate wrote on Twitter after posting the video.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "NPR Executive Caught Calling Tea Partiers ‘Racist’" by Brian Stelter, New York Times, 3/8/11

On the videotape, Mr. Schiller tells people posing as Muslim philanthropists that the Republican party has been “hijacked” by the Tea Party and that Tea Party supporters are “seriously racist, racist people.” Mr. Schiller indicates that he is sharing his personal point of view, not NPR’s.

On the secretly recorded video, Mr. Schiller, whose job is to solicit non-federal funding for NPR, says he feels that the organization would be better without the federal funds. He also says that some stations could “go dark” without the funds.

Mr. Schiller [said], “I think what we all believe is if we don’t have Muslim voices in our schools, on the air, I mean, it’s the same thing we faced as a nation when we didn’t have female voices.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also CLICK HERE to read the saga of the secularists vs. the Christian Tea Party movement (follow successive embedded links).

Tea Party Movement vs. 'Gay Agenda Tea Party'

Tea-party activists and conservative allies from across the nation are telling Congress to fight abortion funding and any repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, in spite of a message from the "gay" activist group GOProud suggesting the tea party wants Congress to ignore social issues.

-- From "Tea party group pressures Congress" by Ben Smith, Politico 11/21/10

A group of tea party activists are firing back at a gay conservative group, claiming that they don't speak for the movement.

. . . tea party activists released their own letter . . .

"We, the undersigned, are leaders of mainstream Tea Party groups. We are the people that helped get conservatives elected on November 2. While we do not speak for this movement as a whole, we are a large cross section of this movement and we want to tell you what this movement wants," they write. "We, the members of the mainstream Tea Party movement have a lot of expectations for you in this Congress. We realize the limitations you face. But we also realize the tools you have at your disposal. America is a conservative country. We expect conservative leadership from our country.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Tea party demands social action, too" by Brian Fitzpatrick © 2010 WorldNetDaily 11/22/10

About 185 tea-party leaders and allies from across America have signed an open letter telling Republicans what the movement wants Congress to do, and explicitly rejecting a similar letter circulated last week by a handful of Tea Party Patriots leaders and GOProud.

The letter calls on Congress to pursue social issues in addition to fiscal issues. GOProud's letter asked Congress to ignore social issues.

"We had to define who speaks for the movement," said [Tea Party Nation founder Judson] Phillips. "It's got to be Tea Party groups that speak for this movement, and GOProud is not in the movement. They never have been and are not a part of the movement."

Phillips was eager to emphasize that he is not claiming to be the leader of the tea party himself.

"People in this movement get upset when others claim to speak for the movement or be the leader of the movement."

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The following is an amazing demonstration of the liberal media who simply "don't get it;" here, NPR appears to be either burying their heads in the sand and reporting what they WISH would be reality, OR they are acting as blatant propagandists.

From "Culture War Brewing Within Tea Party?" by Liz Halloran, NPR 11/22/10

Libertarian-minded Tea Partiers accuse social conservatives of trying to co-opt their movement.

Social conservatives who felt shut out of the conversation in the last two elections are banking on a Hill resurgence going into the 2012 presidential campaign.

Tony Perkins [head of the conservative Family Research Council] characterized the assertions as "hilarious," considering, he says, that polls show that a majority of Tea Party adherents who voted earlier this month identified themselves as conservative evangelicals.

His message: Who's co-opting whom?

Says [homosexualist] GOProud: "In this economic environment, people don't want to hear what your position is on gay marriage, abortion, or gay teachers. They want to hear about the bread-and-butter issues of the economy."

For a great laugh, CLICK HERE to read the entire article above.

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'Teavangelical Party' Emerges from 2010 Election Polling

Christians 'Hold Rudder' in Conservative Politics

Christian Programing Banned from National Public Radio

Since Barack Obama became president, the anti-choice trend is undeniable: Make Christianity on the airwaves rare

UPDATE 6/17/09: PBS confirms ban on airing new religious TV programs

-- From "NPR axes Christian radio programs" by Pete Chagnon, OneNewsNow 4/30/2009

In 1985, National Public Radio (NPR) adopted a policy stating that member stations had to provide "nonsectarian, non-political, noncommercial" educational programming. But in February 2009, the wording was changed to say: "NPR Member Stations shall provide ONLY [emphasis added] nonsectarian, non-political, noncommercial educational content on all broadcast channel(s) and related media distribution platforms such as member partners that use the NPR member brands."

The rule, which takes effect May 1, means that any NPR stations carrying religious programming must cease and desist that programming as of that date. In explaining its decision in a similar matter, PBS -- another federally funded media outlet -- says it "places a high value on presenting diverse perspectives, as opposed to rigidly adhering to any single political or religious point of view." Allowing such programming, it continues, "would cause the public's trust in PBS to erode, along with the value of the brand."

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'Evangelical Leader' Shifting Toward Same-sex 'Marriage'

An influential evangelical leader is coming under fire for saying in a National Public Radio interview he believes in homosexual civil unions and that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and abortion may still find reasons to support Obama.

UPDATE (12/11/08): Cizik resigns NAE position after backlash from comments below.

-- From "Evangelical leader supports 'gay' civil unions" © 2008 WorldNetDaily 12/5/08

Richard Cizik is chief lobbyist and vice president for governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, representing 45,000 U.S. churches from 59 denominations. He told NPR Dec. 2 he is "shifting" on "gay" marriage, he has an aversion to Sarah Palin and that he voted for Obama in the Virginia primary, LifeNews reported.

Cizik told NPR a candidate's character and party values are more significant to him than specific issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.

"It would be possible for evangelicals to disagree with Barack Obama on same sex marriage and abortion and yet vote for him."

Cizik, named one of Time's most influential people, called Palin's stance on the environment "ignorance." He also said she lacked humility, unlike Obama. Prior to the election, he told the Independent, "Not everyone in the evangelical movement is fawning over Sarah Palin."

According to the report, Cizik suggested Christians should redirect their focus away from the debate about "gay" marriage.

"Maybe we need to reevaluate this and look at it a little differently," he told NPR. "I'm always looking for ways to reframe issues. Give the biblical point of view a different slant."

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Even the Liberal Mainstream Media Gets It...

They are now acknowledging what the church won't: the homosexual 'rights' movement is depriving Christians of basic civil liberties--and it's only going to get worse...

From "When Gay Rights and Religious Liberties Clash" by Barbera Bradley Hagerty, posted 6/13/08 at npr.org

In recent years, some states have passed laws giving residents the right to same-sex unions in various forms. Gay couples may marry in Massachusetts and California. There are civil unions and domestic partnerships in Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Oregon. Other states give more limited rights.

Armed with those legal protections, same-sex couples are beginning to challenge policies of religious organizations that exclude them, claiming that a religious group's view that homosexual marriage is a sin cannot be used to violate their right to equal treatment. Now parochial schools, "parachurch" organizations such as Catholic Charities and businesses that refuse to serve gay couples are being sued — and so far, the religious groups are losing. Here are a few cases:

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"Houston, we have a problem..."

Even NPR is acknowledging that fundamental liberties are being destroyed in order to placate homosexual and transgender activists. Will our clergy and Christian leaders acknowledge it?

Christians who are in the world are in need of some practical guidance about how to respond-- not to individual homosexuals (that’s Christianity 101), but to the the movement itself, that is increasingly controlling our schools, govt. and workplaces...

We find ourselves in an increasingly untenable situation. This movement demands allegiance in no uncertain terms...

Will our leaders help, encourage and support us in being faithful?