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Media Apparently Oblivious to the Fact that Texan Sen. Wendy Davis is a Pro-Abortion Extremist

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Photo Credit: APAccording to abortion advocates, Wendy Davis is a voice for America’s silent pro-choice majority. The Texas state senator’s recent filibuster of a bill to outlaw abortions after five months of pregnancy won her media plaudits and catapulted her from obscurity to political stardom.

But the frenzy over Davis’s failed quest to defeat the legislation — which most likely ended last week when the bill passed the Texas Legislature — is hardly proof of a national reservoir of support for late-term abortion. Rather, it is evidence of the deep disconnect between perception and reality when it comes to U.S. citizens’ attitudes about the procedure.

The media’s coverage of Davis’s opposition to the bill, which would also compel abortion facilities to follow the same rules and safety standards as ambulatory surgical centers, ranged from frivolous to fawning. Most media reports focused either on the pink sneakers Davis wore during her 11-hour filibuster or on how the resulting fame would affect her chances of winning the 2014 gubernatorial race.

Abortion advocates, meanwhile, asserted that Davis had given voice to the pro-choice views of Texas and the nation. One commentator referred to the filibuster as a “Texas spring,” a sudden awakening of the state’s pro-choice majority. Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood and daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, said, “My mother would have said, ‘I hear America singing.’” A writer at Salon.com asserted, “It’s a Wendy Davis nation now.”

Most of the coverage failed to mention an important detail: The vast majority of Americans don’t come close to sharing Wendy Davis’s support for late-term abortion. Numerous polls find that most Americans oppose abortion after 20 weeks, except in rare circumstances, such as when the mother’s life is at risk (a circumstance for which the Texas law makes an exception). A University of Texas/Texa

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Some Good News: US Youth Increasingly Pro-Life

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This June, Students for Life of America released the results of a nationwide study, in which we surveyed 805 18-24 year-olds about the upcoming 2012 election, unconstitutional HHS Mandate, and abortion. We knew that a lot of folks tend to try to put young people in a neat little box when it comes to the issue of abortion, but, with this rising generation, we knew we had to shed some light into how they are really thinking and the changing of this debate.

The Good News… Their whole lives this generation has been told that identifying themselves as “pro-life” is judgmental, extremist, and wrong. Yet, when asked questions about their beliefs on the legality of abortion: 44% were pro-life and 45% pro-choice, and they were more likely to view abortion as a “bad thing” (31%) rather than a “good thing” (17%). In the addition, the plurality, 27%, selected “abortion should only be legal in the cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother” as the position most similar to own position on abortion. This generation is not radical in their support of abortion and takes much more of a common sense approach to the issue than President Obama and Planned Parenthood with an overwhelming majority favoring common sense abortion regulations:

  • 89% favored requiring abortionists to follow the same medical and safety protocols as other surgical clinics
  • 84% favored requiring abortion facilities to warn women of seeking abortions of potential health risks
  • 76% favored allowing pregnant women to view sonograms before undergoing an abortion
  • 74% support making sex-selection abortions illegal in United States
  • 70% agreed with offering a woman the opportunity to anesthetize her child before the abortion procedure

We are winning the HHS Mandate issue. When young Americans were asked whether the federal government should force institutions to pay for procedures that offend their religious beliefs, the plurality (44%) disagreed with the Obama’s administration’s move.

The Bad News… We need to educate this generation more on what conscience protections are and who is permitted to have them. The youth surveyed were split on whether medical students should be permitted to object to procedures or drugs for conscience reasons, although this age group was 8 points more likely to agree (44%) than disagree (36%). What they don’t know is literally killing this generation as 58% admitted that they didn’t know where resources were in their community or campus to support a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy who didn’t want to undergo an abortion.

Planned Parenthood still has the upper-hand when it comes to targeting and deceiving this generation. Our study found that young people supported Planned Parenthood by a ratio of six to one (66% “favorable” vs. 11% “unfavorable”), with two in five (40%) calling themselves “strongly favorable.” The plurality of even those who identify as Conservative (44%) and Pro-Life (46%) were even “favorable” towards Planned Parenthood. Even more shocking for those of in the pro-life movement is that fact that 48% said they did not know whether or not Planned Parenthood offered abortions.

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Photo Credit:  TFP Student Action