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Gallup Polls: Younger Americans More Strongly Pro-Life on Abortion
LifeNews.com ^ | March 12, 2010 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 03/12/2010 9:57:23 AM PST by julieee

Gallup Polls: Younger Americans More Strongly Pro-Life on Abortion

Washington, DC -- The Gallup polling agency released an analysis today of its polling data going back to 1975 and it found that younger Americans are currently more strongly pro-life than middle-aged Americans. The polling results give the pro-life movement hope that public opinion will continue moving in the pro-life direction.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010polls; abortion; galluppolls; generationy; prolife; trends; youngeramericans

1 posted on 03/12/2010 9:57:24 AM PST by julieee
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To: julieee; wagglebee; xzins; blue-duncan
Young people these days are ALL Abortion Survivors. Their mothers were given the opportunity and probably in many cases encouraged to kill them in the womb, yet here they are.

I suspect that most of the Baby Boom generation would not exist had abortion been legalized before the end of WWII.

2 posted on 03/12/2010 10:02:14 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: julieee

I have to think part of that reason is because sonograms are becoming the norm. When my wife had our kids, you only got sonograms if there were complications in the surgery. Now everyone gets them and people can see this little baby in the first trimester.


3 posted on 03/12/2010 10:03:32 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
Now everyone gets them and people can see this little baby in the first trimester.

Then why can't the dumb cluck liberals and government see abortion is premeditated murder?

4 posted on 03/12/2010 10:06:44 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: julieee

I’ve been wondering, it is probably wishful thinking, if the youngsters realize they were lied to by obozo, made a bad choice, are more conservative than the old hippies, are sobered by the HUGE debt and less bright future they may face.

My experience though is that they don’t accept criticism, failure or correction very well. Even when it is offered constructively.


5 posted on 03/12/2010 10:07:45 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: julieee

That’s because Conservatives have more children than Leftists do. Conservatives will win this fight on population demographics alone. The Leftists will simply breed themselves out of existence by simply not breeding.

Will this news drive the Left even more batty than they already are? Yeah, baby, yeah!


6 posted on 03/12/2010 10:08:59 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Sequoyah101

I think they realize that 1/3 of them are not here because they were aborted. I think they realize that the preceeding generation (of which I am a member) not only lied to them, but acted in the most selfishly immoral manner possible and passed the consequences of that to their generation. Ironically, as we become “old and in the way”, it may come back around in ways the “Boomers” won’t like much.


7 posted on 03/12/2010 10:17:03 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Some adages never die:

What goes around comes around.

We reap what we sow.

Personally, I wonder if they take enough time not thinking about themselves to consider that 1/3 of them aren’t here.


8 posted on 03/12/2010 10:22:36 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: julieee

Now if we can just get them to see the light on the gay agenda, we’re all set.


9 posted on 03/12/2010 10:24:13 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: julieee

A sign of the Least Great Generation getting older.


10 posted on 03/12/2010 10:24:42 AM PST by Minipax
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To: Bitsy
"Then why can't the dumb cluck liberals and government see abortion is premeditated murder?"

One of the tennants of socialism is abortion. You have to condition society to turn against God and morals to turn them towards the state.
11 posted on 03/12/2010 10:24:47 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: P-Marlowe
Too bad it wasn't a lot of my crappy generation wouldn’t have had the opportunity to screw up our culture.
12 posted on 03/12/2010 10:25:07 AM PST by mimaw
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To: julieee

A big part of this is that the stigma of unwed motherhood is gone. Having a baby at 17 no longer marks a girl for life.


13 posted on 03/12/2010 10:29:00 AM PST by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole

Having had an abortion at 19 and lived to regret it the rest of my life, I can attest that my other sons have not condemingly remarked that knowing they had a sibling who never got born has given them a personal reason to be anti abortion.

I don’t doubt this is a strong reason why this generation is anti abortion. They are keenly aware that their generation would be much larger had this not been legal.


14 posted on 03/12/2010 11:22:22 AM PST by Integrityrocks
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To: Sequoyah101

Some think, but you’re right that probably most don’t. I see it more of an intuitive knowledge than a cognitive matter. We see it in the cold and casual way many look upon the deaths of others, for example. It’s a spiritual problem with profound spiritual consequences in my opinion.


15 posted on 03/12/2010 11:41:44 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: julieee

Maybe memorials such as this will help!

http://www.mbcb.org/missing.aspx#filled


16 posted on 03/12/2010 1:35:29 PM PST by An American! (Proud To Be An American!)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

You can take polls, but they vote for abortion.

66% of the 18-29 year old vote was for Obama.


17 posted on 03/12/2010 2:39:41 PM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: ansel12

Most ObaMao voters, probably especially in that age group, didn’t care or know about his abortion views.


18 posted on 03/12/2010 2:51:12 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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