Sea Change

Gallup poll shows, for the first time since the poll started, that “Pro-Life” Americans outnumber “Pro-Infanticide” ones.

Read the whole, detailed thing.  The most interesting part to me is the crosstab on gender polling (emphasis added):

A year ago, Gallup found more women calling themselves pro-choice than pro-life, by 50% to 43%, while men were more closely divided: 49% pro-choice, 46% pro-life. Now, because of heightened pro-life sentiment among both groups, women as well as men are more likely to be pro-life.

Men and women have been evenly divided on the issue in previous years; however, this is the first time in nine years of Gallup Values surveys that significantly more men and women are pro-life than pro-choice.

The Gender Identity feminists have long hitched their wagon to the idea that abortion is the “women’s right”.  Indeed, their behavior in recent years has confirmed that, given a choice between applauding (much less supporting) any other area of female achievement, the sorts of things that real feminists throughout history would have celebrated as major victories, and supporting white, male, establishment politicians who happened to be pro-“choice” – well, there’s no suspense in that, is there?  I’m fairly convinced that, given a choice between a pro-life woman President and a pro-infanticide white male caricature, the “feminist” “movement” today would not only take “b”, they’d do their best to destroy the woman.  It’s hardly conjecture; it’s recent history.

It’s also good news in that as the American public swings toward support for life, it’ll be less a political issue; Life has been a social-conservative litmus test issue that’s made the Republican Big Tent a contentious place for the past few decades; if we can declare victory one of these days, it’ll make that job a lot easier.

And the fact is, while “victory” is years, maybe generations, away, this is the sort of thing that conservatives need to pat themselves on the back over; along with the erosion of support for Victim Disarmament, it’s a testimony to the grass-roots efforts of millions of workadaddy, hugamommy pro-lifers, winning people over one person, one ultrasound, one day at a time.