I’ve edited the original post, though, to address your point in the third paragraph, which is a good one. There’s been an ongoing CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll tracking abortion with a direct self-identity question, so I link to that.

And I, for one, would be a dissenting opinion on the Supreme Court because the premise of this post is that the abortion debate will be neverending.

In fact, the Scientific Method would laugh in the face of drawing any conclusions from such a correlation. Does this mean that tolerance promotes economic growth? Or does it prove that homosexuals are savvy businessmen? Or does it tell us that cities with a well-educated population have higher amounts of tolerance and wealth?

A scientist would also question whether or not a poll in which the majority of Americans want the Supreme Court nominee to uphold Roe v Wade indicates that the majority of Americans are pro-Choice. What happens when the pollster adds the option of overturning Roe v Wade while maintaining the clauses protecting medically-necessary abortions? If their votes changed, would you still say that the majority of Americans are pro-Choice?

As the Supreme Court wrote in their Roe v Wade decision, science, philosophy, and religion have all been unable to answer the question of when life begins. But the Court at least implied the hope, perhaps unrealistic, that the question could be answered at some “point in the development of man’s knowledge.”