Posted on 02/17/2009 8:16:26 AM PST by thinkingIsPresuppositional
For some people, being pro-life isn't just a slogan. It's a way of life. This is the case with Kristina and Joey. The three of us recently shared lunch together in a great little Italian restaurant. Naturally, our conversation centered on abortion and the future prospects of ending this modern-day holocaust. Kristina told me her mother, a pro-life activist from years ago, had introduced her and twelve brothers and sisters to the grass roots pro-life movement very young in life. She grew up stuffing envelopes, attending marches and even demonstrating outside an abortion mill. Kristina had good reason to be proud of her pro-life heritage.
I relayed my initiation into pro-life activism as a student in high school. Back then—did I really say those two dreaded words? Yes, back then young pro-life activists were almost rare. They certainly were much less common. The vast majority of the pro-life movement was made up of adults, more mature ones at that.
Over our Italian cuisine, Kristina and Joey's faces lit up when they spoke about their daughter, Mikayla. Just the weekend before, she had tirelessly worked to persuade a college friend not to abort her unborn child. It seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It's truly satisfying to see your children hold onto the values you instilled in them. It's even more fulfilling to witness them putting those beliefs into action.
Unlike the pro-life generation before her, Mikayla has more peers at her side working to protect unborn babies from abortion. Today it's much more cool and mainstream to be young and pro-life in America.
By the time the waitress had returned to offer us desert, which we dutifully declined, I was telling Kristina and Joey that polling shows the next generation is much more pro-life, much to the chagrin of many of their pro-abortion parents! Just a few years ago several studies were conducted to determine how America's youth view the world, including their opinion on abortion. Researchers were surprised with their findings. One such study was done by UC Berkeley's Survey Research Center. Berkeley is a bastion of liberal, pro-abortion thinking, but the results showed the nation's youth aged 15-22 were noticeably more pro-life than those 27-59.
Zogby International, a highly respected polling firm, found a considerable increase in the number of young adults aged 18-29 who support a total ban on abortion. An extensive study of American college freshmen also concluded pro-life sentiment was gaining ground among this segment of the student body. A New York Times/CBS News poll resulted in similar findings.
One of the reasons given for the next generation's pro-life convictions is the "survivor syndrome." These kids fortunately survived their nine-month pregnancy and were not legally aborted. Kelly, a junior at Boston College, said, "When I talk about being a survivor of abortion, I am talking about it from a personal place."
Further evidence of a youthful pro-life population explosion is all around us. If you've recently been to the annual March for Life held in Washington, DC, you'd come away with one clear, unmistakable observation. A good majority of the tens of thousands of marchers are made up of America's youth.
Also now evident are pro-life youth organizations like Students for Life of America. There's Rock for Life—music is the key element here. And Wash for Life, a network of youth who on a select day conduct a nationwide carwash with all proceeds going to local women help centers that assist women with unexpected pregnancies. There are other groups not mentioned here.
Yes, it's likely the next generation will determine the future of your children and grandchildren. If we are to put the future of next generations into their hands, we must equip them in the best and most effective way we know how. With a multitude of youth more passionate about protecting unborn babies than past generations, the future looks more promising than ever before!
Bodes well for the future
I agree with you. In time it will change the dynamic of this society.
They will have to face up against another group of young people, still larger, who are totally selfish and devoid of any recognizable human connection.
I’ve had a small amount of success in converting atheists and agnostics to the pro-life position. To be fair, they were all professional philosophers trained in reasoning. It just goes to show that abortion is so clearly wrong that you don’t even need to appeal to their conscience. All you have to do is get them think about it for a mere second.
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The pro-abortion crowd doesn’t realize that it is self defeating.
They are aborting their heirs, while the pro-lifers keep progenating.
The same crowd of pro-aborts are also the same crowd of pro-euthanasia and they are putting their elderly and/or disabled to death as well.
The Culture of Death.
You are right. So in essence, the Western Culture of Death, which is pro-abortion, pro-euthenasia, pro-poulation control, will put itself out of business, hastened by the Muslim Death Cults that they appease and cater to.
The bad news is the the Muslim Death Cults are steadily increasing in number.
Add to that the indoctrination in liberal academia targeting Christian/pro-lifers. I know too many friends whose kids went to liberal schools and went to the “dark side”.
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