Comments on: What do you know about Roe? http://www.alliancealert.org/2007/12/10/what-do-you-know-about-roe/ news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:14:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha By: Peter Chamberlain http://www.alliancealert.org/2007/12/10/what-do-you-know-about-roe/#comment-24 Peter Chamberlain Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:56:24 +0000 http://208.106.238.176/adf.php/2007/12/05/what-do-you-know-about-roe/#comment-24 Re: Roe Poll. Jeffery Weiss, Dallas Morning News Religion Editor, who is Jewish, somewhat liberal, and unconvinced of any patern of discrimination developing agianst Christians, but sometimes interestingand provacative, objects to this poll as a leding and loaded "push poll" designed to get a particualr result. Of course, no poll of people who choose to take a poll, on whatever site, is ever going to be scientific, and this is especially true if it is on a site devoted to one side of the issue. This, hoever, while clled a poll, is not a poll on whether or not one agrees with, but a survey of what one knows, about Roe, etc. As a pro-life friend of FOF, I have Emailed him a comment which would probably displease everybody but that's the way I sometimes see things. As a retired attorney with more than a passing interest and acquiaintanceship with abortion law, and a pro-life advocate who has nevertheles represented an abortion clinic relating to certain privacy rights of its patients, I have read Roe many times and its primary progency more than casually, if not that recently, and was surprised that I only scored in the low 80s on this survey of knowledge, but think I misunderstood some questions and, of course, that could not be my fualt so it must be yours! The Real shocker for me was down near the bottom of the poll results, where, if I read this right, it says 25% of those taking the poll have had an abortion themselves. If I read the rest of te figures right, that has to include a significant number and precengtage of respondents who are now opposed to abortion, i.e., pro-life. That second point would not surprise me because I knew one lady wel who had one at 17 and regretted it later. Not a statistically scientific sample but part of my views on the subject. Actually, as a retired lawyer and pro-life,with some experience in this field, I was shocked that I blew some questions on it despite having read Roe many times and its progeny from time to time. I subscribe to Focus, ADF, etc. but had to make an effort to look it up when that column appeared, later found it again on ADF tonight. Re: Roe Poll. Jeffery Weiss, Dallas Morning News Religion Editor, who is Jewish, somewhat liberal, and unconvinced of any patern of discrimination developing agianst Christians, but sometimes interestingand provacative, objects to this poll as a leding and loaded “push poll” designed to get a particualr result. Of course, no poll of people who choose to take a poll, on whatever site, is ever going to be scientific, and this is especially true if it is on a site devoted to one side of the issue. This, hoever, while clled a poll, is not a poll on whether or not one agrees with, but a survey of what one knows, about Roe, etc. As a pro-life friend of FOF, I have Emailed him a comment which would probably displease everybody but that’s the way I sometimes see things.

As a retired attorney with more than a passing interest and acquiaintanceship with abortion law, and a pro-life advocate who has nevertheles represented an abortion clinic relating to certain privacy rights of its patients, I have read Roe many times and its primary progency more than casually, if not that recently, and was surprised that I only scored in the low 80s on this survey of knowledge, but think I misunderstood some questions and, of course, that could not be my fualt so it must be yours!

The Real shocker for me was down near the bottom of the poll results, where, if I read this right, it says 25% of those taking the poll have had an abortion themselves. If I read the rest of te figures right, that has to include a significant number and precengtage of respondents who are now opposed to abortion, i.e., pro-life. That second point would not surprise me because I knew one lady wel who had one at 17 and regretted it later. Not a statistically scientific sample but part of my views on the subject.

Actually, as a retired lawyer and pro-life,with some experience in this field, I was shocked that I blew some questions on it despite having read Roe many times and its progeny from time to time. I subscribe to Focus, ADF, etc. but had to make an effort to look it up when that column appeared, later found it again on ADF tonight.

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