Dear Friends,

As October is Respect Life month, I think it’s important to bring your attention to the deception used in swaying public opinion about abortion:

Groups like Planned Parenthood and NARL often make the claim that 7 in 10 people support Roe v Wade, but the polling doesn’t back that up. 

A 2013 poll found that only 60 percent of people could correctly describe Roe v. Wade as striking down state-level abortion regulations. 

In fact, many people think overturning Roe v. Wade would make abortion illegal, instead of returning the issue back to state governments. 

My friend Michael New sums up the issue this way, “Seventeen percent thought Roe v. Wade dealt with some other public-policy issue and 20 percent were unfamiliar with the decision. Furthermore, even many who realize Roe v. Wade dealt with abortion fail to understand the full implications of the decision. Many wrongly think that overturning Roe v. Wade would result in a national ban on abortion, instead, a reversal of Roe would return the issue to the states.” 

Furthermore, only 12 percent of people agree with the Democrat National Committee’s stance that abortion should be allowed at any time, for any reason, and at taxpayer expense. And just slightly behind Republicans, millennials as a whole favor ending late-term, fifth-month abortions; yet, only 3 Senate Democrats voted for ending painful, late-term, fifth-month abortions.

In Christ, Father Marotti