Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. The List fund-raises and supports pro-life women running for office. hit the link for the whole op ed.
Women see through Obama’s abortion scare tactics
Changing labels has not, however, coincided to date with radical increases in the number of single-issue voters. Even so, Gallup’s measure of voting sentiment from 1984 to the present has found that pro-life candidates (typically but not always Republicans) have a net gain of between 2.2 and 3.4 percentage points due to their stance on the right to life. The most recent Gallup poll on this subject, from September 24 to 27, found that 16 percent of voters are more or less single issue on abortion, and 9 percent versus 7 percent are pro-life in their outlook and voting behavior.
This gap of just 2 percent is at the lower end of the historical range. It may reflect to a degree the millions of dollars President Obama and his allies at Planned Parenthood have spent on abortion and contraception advertising. The pattern is consistent with a not-altogether-unsuccessful effort to rally younger women in the Democratic base.
Such advertising has a significant downside. Meant for targeted audiences, it has spilled over into the general campaign. It has spawned sharp commentary and millions of dollars in pro-life, swing state ads from groups like ours, who are able to point out how the Democratic Party has abandoned all semblance of pro-life sympathy with its embrace of “any and all” abortions in Charlotte. There is a seeming desperation in the Obama campaign’s messaging, as they try to persuade the public that Planned Parenthood does few abortions and countless mammograms, when the truth is they do hundreds of thousands of abortions and not a single mammogram.
Planned Parenthood is even reportedly dropping what little prenatal care it offers.
Abortion advocates demean women by thinking the thing they care about is having the right to “choose” to have an abortion. Women are much smarter and savvier than Cecile Richards, Stephanie Cutter and Sandra Fluke give them credit for.
Social conservatives, outgunned in so many media shootouts, excel at grassroots mobilization. If Ohio tips to Mr. Romney, you may not see us in the headlines, but our handiwork will be all over it.
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