This past month two major items collided in one week to once again bring the abortion controversy front and center. President Barack Obama, a pro-choice advocate, spoke at the well-known Catholic University of Notre Dame, while at the same time amazing results from a Gallup poll concerning abortion were released.
What took many by surprise is that such a notable university, sponsored by a church with such strong pro-life beliefs, would welcome a politician who openly promotes his opposing views. Many Catholic officials publicly denounced the event, boycotting the speech or joining in demonstrations leading up to the commencement address.
What's happening out there?
While protests were occurring on Notre Dame's campus, the respected Gallup organization released a poll showing that, for the first time since 1995, a majority of Americans (51 percent) consider themselves "pro-life" when it comes to the issue of basic human rights for infants in the womb. It is an astonishing statistic considering the daily onslaught of secular humanistic education, media jargon and a pervasive entertainment industry that speaks of the gift of life in terms of "reproductive rights," "a woman's right to choose" and trivializes the unborn by using the pitiful description of "fetal tissue."
The percentages have abruptly swung upward by 6 percent in just a year to give a majority status—though ever so slim—to those who affirm the sanctity of life in the womb. What's happening out there? It wasn't supposed to be this way in 2009, was it?
Perhaps people are beginning to finally take notice of the grim statistic that 3,700 babies are aborted every day—just in the United States.
That grim statistic multiplies to 1.3 million a year. Let's put it this way. That would be like every resident of San Diego, America's seventh largest city, receiving a death sentence to be carried out within one year. How are we supposed to go on as a mature society as this holocaust of the womb systematically goes on day by day, life by life in quiet, sterile clinics?
