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Exultate Justi
Friday, April 01, 2005
 
This shocks even me...


Somehow, I've ended up on the email list for ProgressNow.org - a Denver-based Lefty political portal. They're pushing Gov. Owens pretty hard (as one would expect) to sign into law a bill (HB 1042) that, among other things, would mandate that church-run hospitals in the state provide "emergency contraceptives" to victims of rape. Without the cheerful-sounding euphamism, we're left with a de facto abortion, of course.

Granted, this is one of those issues that is admittedly sticky. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that there aren't legitimately tough issues to be worked through in the pro-life position, but the tone of ProgressNow's email is beyond out-of-touch. Get this - they're citing, as evidence of overwhelming public support for the bill, their own poll on the subject. Now, let's recap, for those who might have missed the humor here:

Their email describes 98% of their online poll participants as supportive of the measure. Is this supposed to be surprising, or somehow legitimately representative of the population at-large (rather than simply being representative of the self-selective hard-core leftists who frequent their site)?

Isn't this akin to my approaching my wife, and saying: You know, in a recent poll of me, 100% of me thought that I ought to be allowed to buy that AR-15. If that doesn't seal the deal, I don't know what will...?

I'm struggling to keep a straight face here...

Here's the email text, verbatim:

"I am a victim of rape, two different times of my life. The first time left me pregnant and I immediately had an abortion. I have never in my life regreted the decision to terminate this pregnancy. And that was 22 years ago. This may not be everyone's choice, but I am not God and it is not up to me to make that decision for anyone else."

That was one of almost 900 responses to our poll. So far, more than 98% of respondents believe that Governor Owens Should support HB 1042 allowing victims of rape to receive information to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.

Unfortunately, James Dobson's Focus on the Family sent an alert to his followers pressuring Governor Owens to veto this bill.

EMAIL A LETTER TO THE EDITOR TODAY: click on a link below to write a letter now urging Governor Owens not to bow to extremists:

openforum@denverpost.com Denver Post
letters@RockyMountainNews.com Rocky Mountain News
openforum@dailycamera.com Boulder Daily Camera
letters@greeleytrib.com Greeley Tribune
opinion@coloradoan.com Fort Collins Coloradoan
gtop@gazette.com Colorado Springs Gazette
newsroom@chieftain.com Pueblo Chieftain
letters@gjds.com Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Online submission form Durango Herald

Please also send us a copy of your letter.

And if you have not yet voted or commented in our poll or have not invited your friends to participate, please do so now at: http://www.progressnow.org/poll.

We will hand deliver the poll results and your comments to Governor Owens' office on Monday. Thank you for your participation. The health of Colorado women is at stake.

Sincerely,
Maria Handley
Outreach Director

ProgressNow.org
1536 Wynkoop St. #200
Denver, CO 80202
Ph: (303) 991-1900 | Fx: (303) 991-1902 | www.progressnow.org | info@progressnow.org
Now, I'm fairly certain that, if Focus on the Family were to run a similar poll on their site, they would come up with a diametrically opposite result. Were that to occur, would you expect that the fine folks at ProgressNow would readily accept Focus' poll as equally valid? I suspect not. Why, then, should the Governor be swayed by what is so obviously the work of push-polling agenda-monkeys who would claim unearned legitimacy for their poll?

I'd encourage any of my readers who take a pro-life view of things to use this same email list, and write letters in support of Owens, encouraging him to stand firm, and to stand for life. We've had enough of the other scenario played out this week, don't you think?

Coupla other things:

While the survey respondant in the email above may not regret her abortion, there are countless numbers of American women who do. If the pro-choice side of the argument isn't willing to make allowances for those women, how, then, can they claim to speak for women in general? It would seem to me that the only women whose voices they're interested in hearing are those who parrot the NARAL/Planned Parenthood line.

Also, anyone else catch the irony in this sentence?
This may not be everyone's choice, but I am not God and it is not up to me to make that decision for anyone else. (emphasis mine)

We'll leave it at that.

(permalink) Posted by Jared @ 12:04 PM |

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