Poll: 55% of Americans Don’t Know Planned Parenthood Does Abortions
by Steven Ertelt
Half of Americans don’t know Planned Parenthood does abortions — let
alone that it is the biggest abortion business in the United States.
That figure comes from a new Polling Company survey that the firm
conducted for the National Right to Life Committee. It found that a
substantial majority of registered voters say that they are familiar
with Planned Parenthood and a majority has a favorable impression of the
abortion giant.
But that favorable opinion might change if Americans actually knew
Planned Parenthood is an abortion company. However, the same poll found
that a majority did not know that Planned Parenthood performs abortions.
“The polling reflects the results of Planned Parenthood’s campaign to
publicly minimize and obfuscate its involvement with abortion.” said
David N. O’Steen, Ph.D., National Right to Life Executive Director.
O’Steen told LifeNews that his organization’s poll found 88% of
respondents said that they were familiar with Planned Parenthood, with
41% saying that they were very familiar and 47% saying that they were
somewhat familiar. Forty percent said they knew someone who had
received services at a Planned Parenthood. Although 63% said that they
had a favorable opinion of Planned Parenthood, including 38% of those
who identified themselves as pro-life, 55% of those polled did not know
that Planned Parenthood performs abortions.
I disagree with this poll. I think people just don’t want to admit what is really happening at Planned Parenthood so they won’t have to get involved. Just as those who lived in Germany during the Holocaust, sat in church and heard the sounds of the trains carrying our Jewish brothers and sisters to the death camps, did nothing, so too do Americans who sit in the pews today and hear about abortion and see the many prayer vigils outside of Planned Parenthood facilities on a daily basis do nothing. They just sing a little louder!
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