And speaking of that Leftist media bias...
The media tend to parrot the Planned Parenthood line on abortion. To hear them tell it, Americans are overwhelmingly and unambiguously pro-choice, and regard abortion as a woman's healthcare decision and nothing more. Yet for years, the polls have told a very different story.
A new poll just came out. Once more, it shows that Americans are pro-choice rather than pro-life by only the narrowest of margins and that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe that there need to be restrictions on the supposed "right" to abortion.
Admittedly, this Marist poll was commissioned by the Knights of Columbus. But that in itself doesn't disqualify it, especially since the historic result of Gallup polls, to cite a representative sample of polls on the matter since Roe v. Wade was handed down, demonstrate resoundingly that public opinion has never divided the way the Planned Parenthood/Democratic/mainstream media narrative has suggested and that rather than representing a dramatic change, the numbers reported by the Marist poll are pretty much in line with what they've always been!
In fact, the logic of Roe v. Wade itself, as twisted and bizarre as it was, essentially was that because the American people were so very divided about the status of unborn human life and no consensus on the subject existed, somehow the states had no right to legislate on the matter individually or to consult whatever consensus might exist within their own borders. But as the Gallup figures indicate, ever since Roe there has, in fact, existed a consensus in society that the guidelines the Court in effect read into the Constitution are unconscionably permissive!
The reason this hasn't been more widely reported isn't that there is some kind of conspiracy among the liberal media. It's because we all have the tendency to unquestioningly accept the narrative that fits with our own views, and not to question it. The solution is not to demonize the press, but to get more conservatives to go to journalism school and to challenge the unexamined assumptions of the media, just as I'm doing right now.
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