FRC: Pro-Abortion Agenda Has Been Rejected by Majority of Americans

     (FRC) "The pro-abortion activists marching in Washington represent the extreme, not the consensus," says FRC's Genevieve Wood.

     At a press conference in Washington today (April 23), Family Research Council (FRC) Vice President for Communications Genevieve Wood spoke out against the large pro-abortion rally planned for Sunday:

     "The pro-abortion activists marching in Washington this weekend do not represent the majority of women in America," said Wood. "Rather, with the passing of each year the views espoused by groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL become more and more extreme, while the nation becomes more and more pro-life.

     "Several pieces of pro-life legislation that have been passed or at least introduced in Congress over the past several years have had the support of between 70 and 90 percent of Americans, but these pro-abortion groups have opposed them all. Americans want partial-birth abortion banned, but Planned Parenthood is fighting to keep it legal. Americans wanted the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, but NARAL opposed it. And today, Americans want laws passed to require parental consent for a minor to have an abortion, but yet again, these groups are fighting to stop it.

     "The pro-life bills that FRC has fought for over the past few years were not only supported by pro-lifers, or by religious Americans, as the other side contends. Rather, regardless of whether they are pro-life or pro-abortion, Americans have been nearly unanimous on issues like partial-birth abortion. This speaks volumes about who the extremists in this debate truly are. The organizations claiming to represent the interests of all women, on these issues, have the support of a diminishing minority of women."

Source: Family Research Council
Publish Date: April 23, 2004