Time Magazine’s Nancy Gibbs writes Understanding America’s Shift on Abortion today, attempting to explain to Americans why they are not really Pro-Life.
Do these people really get paid for this crap?!
She writes,
“At either extreme, slightly more people now believe abortion should be illegal under all circumstances (23%) than legal under all circumstances (22%).
So what’s changed? Gallup attributes the new numbers to Republicans purifying their views: 70% now call themselves pro-life, up 10 points in a year. But that’s to be expected; when fewer people call themselves Republican, the party condenses into a pool of true believers.”
In other words, the purification of the Republican Party increases the percentage of pro-life individuals within the party, and that somehow translates to a 100% increase in strict pro-lifers (those who think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances) across the board since the mid 90′s.
Come on, Nancy. We’re not that stupid.
Her “analysis” assumes that the people leaving the Republican Party are more Pro-choice than those remaining. But my gut tells me (yes, that is entirely unscientific, so sue me) more people are leaving the Republican Party because it has shifted farther to the Left and, among other compaints I have heard, taken a more Pro-choice position.
Thanks for the “explanation,” Ms. Gibbs. I think I’ll stick with the facts.
