A Gallup survey released on Friday shows that more than half of Americans now consider themselves to be Pro Life! For the first time since they started taking the poll in 1995, the minority of Americans are Anti-Life and Anti-Family.

The Associated Democrat Press is unhappily reporting on the news as President Obama gets ready to take his extremist anti-life and anti-family views to the Roman Catholic (or at least it used to be) University of Notre Dame today.

From the AP:

The abortion issue also is front and center as Obama considers potential nominees to fill the vacancy left by the retirement this summer of Justice David Souter. Abortion opponents are determined to see Roe v. Wade overturned, but only four court justices out of nine have backed that position. Souter has opposed arguments for overturning the ruling.

The Rev. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, has not joined the debate that erupted after Obama’s invitation. A leading Catholic scholar, citing the Obama invitation and honorary degree, declined the school’s most prestigious award, making this year’s commencement the first time that the Laetare Medal hasn’t been given out since 1883. “It is clear that Notre Dame didn’t understand what it means to be Catholic when they issued this invitation,” Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said after the university announced Obama’s appearance.

Friends and colleagues say Jenkins has listened to the criticism, but is confident in his decision. “He respects people who differ, but he’s resolute in his decision because he did it based on conscience and what he really believes in,” said Richard Notebaert, chairman of Notre Dame’s board of trustees.
Notebaert said Jenkins, who is in the fourth year of a five-year term, has the “full support” of the trustees. That hasn’t soothed critics, who question whether Notre Dame has lost touch with its Catholic roots. Calls for Jenkins’ ouster have grown louder amid protests by abortion opponents, who have flown pictures of aborted fetuses over campus and paraded dolls smeared in fake blood outside a recent trustees’ meeting. Dozens of anti-abortion activists have been arrested, and more arrests were likely as protesters converge on the campus for commencement weekend.

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