Pro-lifers are winning the argument

Buried in the Washington Post is this small item: Poll: 51% Say They Are Pro-Life:

A Gallup poll found for the first time that a majority of Americans identify themselves as pro-life.

A May survey, just released, asked the question: With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?

In 1995, 33 percent of respondents identified themselves as pro-life and 56 percent as pro-choice. But in May, 51 percent said they were pro-life and 42 percent said pro-choice.

Just a year ago, 50 percent of Americans surveyed identified themselves as pro-choice and 44 percent as pro-life.

We reported these findings before, back in May, but I guess the study has just been formally published.

What is striking here, though, is the progress and the rapidity of the shift: In 1995, 33% were pro-life; in 2008, 44%; in 2009, 51%!