Americans are turning against abortion

Here's a great piece by Robert Rinearson that I found over at Lucianne.com.

It's bad news for the pro-aborts and the libs in general:

... it was science and technology that helped me find my voice. First came ultrasound. To see the movement of a grey mass in the womb and to hear the unmistakable rhythm of a heartbeat testified that life existed. As the technology has progressed, we can now see the movement of limbs as early as eight weeks. We can witness a child develop almost from conception.

I have also viewed snapshots of fetuses that have been aborted. They are not so different from some of the more horrendous crime-scene photos I have seen. The pro-choice crowd would say I’m being sensationalist, or they might say nothing at all. They will argue that life only begins at birth.

But as the Rev. Clenard Howard Childress, director of Life Education and Resource Network, or LEARN, puts it, “If you haven’t seen what abortion does, then you will never understand what abortion actually is.” This is not an easy statement for those who turn away from the reality of abortion to spare their consciences.

Even the co-founder of the National Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL), Dr. Bernard Nathanson, changed his views after coming to believe that fetology, the study of the fetus within the uterus, removed any doubt that life began at conception.

After performing 75,000 abortions, Nathanson renounced his pro-abortion beliefs and turned his back on NARAL.

But here’s the hard part for the “pro-choice” crowd: Public opinion, for decades cowed to their side, has suddenly turned against them. In a Zogby Poll, 56 percent of the 30,117 respondents agreed with one of three pro-life views: abortion should never be legal, legal only when the life of the mother is in danger, or legal in cases of rape or incest. Plus, 61 percent said no abortions should be performed after brainwaves were detected.

Despite how difficult it might be for senators such as Charles Schumer, Ted Kennedy and Patrick Leahy to accept, 71 percent of Americans disagreed with the statement that “the Senate should confirm only pro-abortion justices.”

Perhaps America is awakening to the idea that life is something to be cherished, even at the very beginning.

The left knows that abortion is no longer a winning issue on which to run. If abortion is mentioned at all in campaigns, it's couched in twisted terms like "women's health issues," which is characteristic of leftist orthodoxy in general.

They can't overtly run on higher taxes, bigger government, more socialism, weaker military and so on. They can only run on how horrible Bush is.

People may be catching on. The constant harangue against Bush has been off putting to even the most casual observer.

Unfortunately, as more people turn away from the liberal orthodoxy, the republicans are turning away from the conservative orthodoxy and are becoming more like democrats. This may be a net win for republicans, but this trend is leaving conservatives out in the cold and very frustrated.

If conservatives had some decent leadership, they would capitalize on the the weaknesses of the left, romance the Reagan democrats, marginalize the liberal republicans (McClain, Specter, Lindsey et al) and rebuild the left-leaning republican party into an unapologetic conservative powerhouse.