An Anniversary to Mourn: Roe v. Wade
By Michael F. Haverluck
CBNNews.com
January 22, 2008
CBNNews.com - Nearly 50 million unborn children have been killed through the abortion process since the notorious Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision on January 22, 1973, according to National Right to Life.
That averages out to more than 3,000 abortions every day since that ominous date - worse than suffering a Sept. 11 death toll daily for 35 years. But these deaths are not the work of ruthless terrorists; they come at the hands of our own medical practitioners.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the landmark ruling, but do the majority of Americans really support what the court found?
"The pro-abortion mantra is that the public supports Roe," said Senior Legal Counsel Michael Johnson of the Alliance Defense Fund, a legal group that works to defend religious freedoms. "That presumption is on shaky ground."
ADF states that even though polls show a slim majority of Americans favor the controversial decision, an overwhelming majority supports some kind of restriction on abortion - an allowance not afforded in Roe v. Wade.
A number of pro-family organizations contend that most Americans are unaware of what the ruling allows.
They argue that the more people know about Roe v. Wade, the less likely they are to support it.
"The abortion industry has waged a decades-long deception campaign to suppress the truth about abortion," Johnson said. "If Americans knew the truth about Roe, they wouldn't be as supportive."
Do You Know Roe?
The Alliance Defense Fund, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America have worked together to produce the "Roe IQ Test," which was designed to show that most people don't truly understand Roe v. Wade.
The pro-family groups say that Americans were rudely awakened after taking the survey, when they discovered the true colors of Roe v. Wade.
Take the Roe IQ Test by clicking here.
Survey Says...
With the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade already here, the results of the test have been unleashed by ADF.
Just as predicted, America failed the Roe v. Wade test. With more than 40,000 taking the test, the average person only answered correctly on 7 of the 12 questions about the Supreme Court decision - or 59 percent.
About 80 percent of the participants considered themselves as "conservative" or "very conservative," with 20 percent describing themselves as "liberal" or "very liberal."
As church attendance and education levels increased with the test takers, so did their test scores.
ADF reports that 70 percent of participants believe that abortion should be illegal except if the mother's life is in danger or illegal under all circumstances.
About 30 percent of those tested indicated that abortion should remain legal in a number of other circumstances.
Preliminary Results
Earlier this year in May, a trial run of the survey produced some expected results.
"What this survey found was that when people know what Roe does, their support for overturning it increases and their opposition to overturning it decreases," said Focus on the Family bioethics analyst Carrie Gordon Earll. "Reversing Roe is the goal, but first we have to reveal Roe because so many Americans don't understand what the rulings did."
Earll noted that approximately 400 people affiliated with pro-family organizations or the pro-life movement participated in the preliminary online run of the test and averaged a score of only 68 percent correct.
What kind of response can we expect from those supporting abortion?
Pro-choice advocates "are not going to like this test because this test moves the debate away from the nebulous word "choice," and into some concrete realities," Earll added. "We think when people understand that Roe and Doe allowed abortion for any reason throughout a pregnancy, they'll be appalled by that."
Doe v. Bolton is a similar landmark case in 1973 that worked to legalize abortion in the United States.
Many hope that the test will be one of the initial steps in overturning the decision that sentenced tens of millions of innocent unborn children to an early death.
Planned Infanticide
Clinics such as Planned Parenthood have made a living from terminating the lives of unborn children.
Alliance Defense fund reports that the tax-dollar-supported clinic, which has a huge presence in this nation's public schools, made $104 million from performing 244,628 abortions in 2004 alone.
About one-third of Planned Parenthood's funding comes from taxes, and in 2005, the organization took in a gross revenue of $882 million, with $63 million reported as "excess revenue."
Planned Parenthood claims that its mission is about "protecting women's health" by keeping abortion "safe, legal and rare," yet ADF contends that its promotion of practices devaluing and destroying human lives speaks for itself.
ADF reports that Planned Parenthood's assault on America's youth and values doen't end on the abortion table, "the organization hawks poorly performing condoms, provided an undercover reporter posing as a 15-year-old with suggestions on how to cover up a case of statutory rape, and fought regulations that would enforce basic safety standards for its clinics."
Results from the Roe IQ Test show that the more Americans understand the true nature of Roe v. Wade, the more likely they are to oppose the death-sentencing decision.
Sources: Alliance Defense Fund, Focus on the Family, CBN News, Family Research Council, World Net Daily, Answers in Genesis, Concerned Women for America, National Right to Life
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