Woman Taken To Hospital Following Botched Abortion, Possibly Dead
By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
Feb. 17, 2005
(Wichita, KS) — A woman was taken from a Kansas abortion facility to a local hospital Thursday after an apparent botched abortion.
The incident comes just weeks after another woman apparently died after another botched abortion at the same abortion business.
Source: LifeNews.com
Post-Election Poll: Abortion Helped Bush With Hispanics, Catholics
By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
Feb. 5, 2005
(Washington, D.C.) — A new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Akron shows that the abortion issue helped President Bush make considerable gains in the 2004 elections among Catholics and Hispanics. The poll also finds Bush improving with most religious groups while those who attend church infrequently backed John Kerry.
According to the survey, some 63 percent of Hispanic Protestants supported Bush in 2004 compared with just 32 percent in 2000. Meanwhile, Catholics gave Bush a 53 to 47 percent advantage over the Massachusetts senator, also an increase over Bush's 2000 numbers. Longtime Democrat voting blocs, both groups voted for the president in part because of social issues like abortion, the poll showed.
Source: LifeNews.com
New National Abortion Poll Shows Majority of Americans are Pro-Life
Jan. 16, 2004
Source: Zogby poll
Los Angeles Times Poll
June 18, 2000
A June 2000 Los Angeles Times nationwide poll asked: "Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Abortion is murder." The answer: 57 percent of those surveyed said that "abortion is murder," while 36 percent disagreed. Among women, 61 percent judged abortion to be murder.
Source: LA Times poll, June 2000