Media Distortions – Do Lives Matter to Biden? – American Family Association of Indiana
This Doesn’t Fit the Media Narrative
A new national poll conducted by Harvard University and the Harris polling firm contradicts the liberal outrage that the media seems fixated upon following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
The poll finds that 75% of Americans agree that the Supreme Court should not be deciding abortions, with 44% saying states should determine abortion laws and 31% saying Congress should do so.
The poll found that 37% would ban abortion entirely with only rape and incest exceptions while another 49% support a heartbeat law banning abortions after 6 weeks. Roughly three out of four (72%) support banning abortions after 15 weeks — which was the Mississippi law the Supreme Court considered.
Only 10% of Americans would support allowing abortion up to birth, which is the position of the Biden Administration and most federal Democrat office holders.
Interestingly, the poll found this issue splits evenly in terms of political action this November. About a third, 36% of Americans say the Dobbs decision makes them more likely to vote Republican, 36% say it makes them more likely to vote Democrat and the rest say there is no change. A pro-abortion political boost for Democrats, three full months from now, in November, seems unlikely.
Love Them Both
Indiana Right to Life is hosting a very important statehouse event on July 26th at 11 am called the “Love Them Both Rally.” If you want to stand for life at the statehouse, this is a great event to attend and be seen as a supporter for life. It is also a time to speak with your legislators about legislation to protect life and support women in a crisis pregnancy situation.
As I have said, things are very fluid at this point. From the information I am hearing from various legislators, you can probably expect to see a life bill with certain limited exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother and a bill providing financial help with resources for maternal care, adoption costs, and other items to care for the needs of pregnant women. (Incidentally, the widely reported story, even cited by the President, of a 10-year-old Ohio girl coming to Indiana for an abortion is hearsay and may be fake.)
You can find more details on the Love Them Both Rally here.
The Stability of Marriage
There is an interesting new study of living arrangements for children and finds that poor married couples are more likely to stay together than even wealthy cohabiting couples.
The longitudinal study grouped parents into five socio-economic groups and then compared the stability between the groups by analyzing married versus cohabiting couples with children.
It found that overall cohabiting parents were 3.4 times more likely to split up compared to married parents (6.5 percent versus 1.9 percent) and that this “gap in stability runs across all five income quintiles”. That finding was consistent over the ten-year period studied by researchers. Even when accounting for mothers’ age, education, ethnicity, household income and relationship happiness the breakup rate among cohabiting couples was still significantly higher than the married, regardless of the married’s income level.
As Harry Benson, the Marriage Foundation’s Research Director noted: “These figures demonstrate, yet again that marriage remains the most stable form of relationship especially for raising children and is more important than income on couples sticking together. Even once we controlled for mothers’ age, education, ethnicity, relationship happiness and income, the odds of cohabiting parents splitting up are consistently twice as high as married parents. This explains why our analysis shows that nearly nine in ten of all intact couples with 13–15-year-old children are married.”
Where Have Young Men Gone?
There is a very interesting article from Stanford University historian Victor Davis Hanson which looks at some of the concerning changes in US demographics, labor, family formation, and education. One tidbit from his piece is this factoid: “Add up all these dark clouds and America is experiencing a perfect storm, in which only 61% of the able workforce is currently officially employed.”
Read Hanson’s insights here.
These Lives Don’t Matter to the Biden Administration
While it is painfully obvious that the Biden administration does not care about the unborn. There are other lives they also don’t care about. Under Biden’s open border policies, over 700 illegal immigrants have died attempting to cross our Southern border. More illegal activities are occurring at our Southern border than ever before as drug traffickers and cartels take advantage of this situation. According to a government report the cartels make over $14 million a day exploiting people and smuggling drugs across the border.
Record amounts of fentanyl are pouring across the border as overdose deaths climbed to well over 100,000 Americans last year. Of those deaths, 64% were from this drug, mostly made in Mexico with source chemical components often coming from China.
For comparison, last year, 42 people were killed in the US in a “mass shooting.” In 2020, that number was 9. There were 71 in 2019. Which danger, open borders, or mass shootings, are getting more media attention and seeing more action from the Biden Administration?
The answer is obvious. As former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said, “They [Biden’s team] know full well the costs of their open-borders policies, but are pursuing them anyway—all for political benefit and pursuit of their personal ideology. It’s disgusting. How many more Americans and migrants have to die before we say enough is enough and demand the Biden administration take back our borders from the cartels?”
Have a Nice Trip
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has changed his residency from South Bend, Indiana to Traverse City, Michigan. Most observers conclude that there’s no way the ultra-liberal politician could get elected to anything in Indiana that would be helpful to advancing his political career.
In Their Own Words:
“The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.” – John Piper, author, pastor, theologian
Note: For source referencing this astounding claim, in 86 years, the KKK lynched 3,446 African Americans, which is less than the number of abortions (4,734) that occur on black babies in the US in just four days.
Sourced here.
