Posted on 12/14/2014 9:10:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Millennials are increasingly more pro-life and supportive of restrictions on abortion than their parents' generation, according to polling data taken over the last decade, and pro-life leader credit medical technology for this growing trend.
Lila Rose, president of the pro-life group Live Action, told The Christian Post in a recent interview that advances in ultrasound technology is just one of the many reasons why teenagers and people in their 20s are joining the movement.
"There's a window into the womb with ultrasound. Just having the look into the womb you can see, even in the first trimester, the early development of the child — you can see the humanity of the child," Rose said. "Now that we have that imagery and it's more prevalent, people are having that personal encounter with the child, so it's easier to recognize their human rights."
She continued: "And there are stories that have emerged about how abortion doesn't help women, but it actually hurts them. This has been shared in the testimonies of women who've spoken out against it afterwards. And there's the emergence of evidence about the abuses and the illegal practices at Planned Parenthood that are coming more to light.
"All of these factors are inspiring to younger people who see it as a human rights abuse and an attack against women and children, and they want to join the movement," Rose added.
What a silly poll. Who believes that abortion should be illegal in all cases? Who believes in banning an abortion if a woman’s life is at risk or if the fetus has died?
I think it’s because back in the 70’s to the 2000’s, feminist doctrine was that a woman couldn’t be “free” if she couldn’t control her own body 100% of the time. (This of course left out the small detail that when there’s a *baby* growing inside your body, it is in fact a separate person.) So the two were inseparable: abortion on demand = women’s rights. But I think young women these days have grown up with a lot less discrimination against them (which is a good thing) and as a result can take a second look at abortion rights and say, “Hey, wait a minute, how does my freedom as an individual equal abortion on demand?” I think the real freedom and equality that young women now enjoy has finally freed them to leave the feminist plantation, just like blacks *could* leave the Democrat plantation if they’d just open their eyes.
We’re winning the hearts and minds of the biggest generation in America when it comes to gun rights and the right to life. Now we just need to channel that toward government fiscal responsibility and tax reductions and you’ll have the most conservative generation in a century.
With modern birth control, people really have little excuse.
If a fetus is already dead in the womb, then removal of the child would NOT be an abortion. As for a woman’s risk to her health in bearing children, if the child is healthy and will survive birth then why would abortion even be considered? Parents have to give up everything for their children, sometimes that includes their own lives.
Easy answer is that these young people have been born to mothers who were pro-life - or they wouldn’t be here. I doubt the baby-killers thought this out in advance. Neither had I. But obviously, these young people were allowed to be born. Which does automatically put them in the majority.
From the many young folks I’ve encountered while working with them, it’s one of the ways that they don’t want to be like their parents. When I attended a university nearly 30 years ago, abortion was against the religion of most of the Gen-X-ers and Baby Boomers in that community. But many of them collected venereal diseases and did it anyway, and they did so more than people of other communities in their age range.
Many of the Gen-X-ers and Baby Boomers who had abortions aborted some babies and kept others. They treated it as a career/economic decision and sometimes a decision based on their feelings for their husbands.
I’d like to think because they are smarter but I agree that the core of it is related to ultrasound which makes a big difference and as next generation Ultrasound tech becomes even more common it will be even harder to escape the reality that what is being aborted is not just a clump of cells but a living baby. Also it wasn’t till after Roe V Wade that the Pro Life Movement got its act together which has made a big difference. It shows how important it is to mobilize a clear response and clear message against the left. You can’t win if you don’t provide a compelling argument and nothing is more compelling than the idea that Mother’s shouldn’t be killing their babies. Its intuitive.
Many of them, especially the onlies, must wonder how many siblings they would have had, if not for the selfishness of their mothers.
You know, to me, choosing to abstain is more of a career/economic decision. NO boyfriend drama, no risk of disease, no cheating drama, no distractions, just 100% pure clean living.
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