2007-01-22 18:55:58 · 15 answers · asked by Buda B 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
In my 23 years defending women's clinics against anti-choice terrorists, I have had hundreds of arguments with them
There is no doubt that they are less intelligent than the general public.
BTW - Please don't use the term "pro-life." The correct description of these people is either "anti-choice" or anti-abortion."
2007-01-22 19:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not a matter of intelligence. It's a matter of beliefs. Whether or not the collective group of "pro-lifers" or "anti-abortionists" maintains a below average intelligence is irrelevant. There are many still that have very high intelligence yet disagree with the issue on a moral basis.
However, you must realize something errant in our own justice system. How can a man be tried and convicted of a double murder for killing his pregnant wife and unborn child, yet abortion is perfectly legal? If a man can be tried for the murder of a yet unborn life, then the courts thus acknowledge that the fetus IS alive as a human being. This is not considered destruction of property or unlawful abortion, but murder.
But then again think of it this way: when a woman has an abortion, she might not be considered as destroying a life, but she IS destroying the probability of life. The fetus will become a child. But she is not only destroying that life but also the lives of the children her child might have had. Entire generations wiped out because a woman treated her fetus as an appendix, something to be disposed of when it became a burden.
I personally believe that if a child is unwanted by the parent, then she should give the child up for adoption. There are many loving parents out there who are unfortunate enough to not be able to bare children but desperately want one.
In the end, of course, it comes down to choice. I can go out and choose to bash someone's head in and then vaccuum out his brains and internal organs, but am I going to? No, because it is wrong. I CHOOSE not to do it.
2007-01-23 06:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by Aaron M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one really knows for sure since there have not been any authenticated surveys or studies done to date that I could find.
One way for us to gage the answer to that question would be looking that people we know personally and those who are in the public eyes to see which side seems to have people with higher /lower intelligence. Can you visualize them?
Maybe it's just me but whenever I think of prominent and vocal "pro lifers" somehow I think of President Bush, Tom Delay, Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart, Mark Foley, David Duke...Somehow I also think of personal integrity as well as intellect...
2007-01-23 03:27:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't think it's universal, but religious fundamentalists tend to be pro-life, and to become a religious fundamentalist often implies the suspense of rational thought.
Also, the stupid tend to breed faster...
2007-01-23 06:27:40 · answer #4 · answered by Benny Blanco 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would be very difficult to get an accurate number on that because what someone says, and what they do, are two different things.
2007-01-23 04:17:40 · answer #5 · answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, same as football players.
2007-01-23 03:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have not heard of such a study as of yet! I would love to know where one could get such statistics.
2007-01-23 03:11:25 · answer #7 · answered by wondermom 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
probably - all that repetitive lifting - how mind-numbingly boring
2007-01-23 02:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by rose_merrick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea but you may have a point
2007-01-23 02:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
152 here..........so, no. Maybe you should read more on the subject. Just a suggestion
2007-01-23 03:15:52 · answer #10 · answered by Stephanie D 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋