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More evidence has emerged of the graying of the pro-choice movement and the contrasting youth of the pro-life cause. A new Gallup Poll shows that Americans in the 18- to 29-year-old demographic are more likely than Baby Boomers to believe abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.
They also oppose abortion, across the board, in greater numbers than their elders.
A recent issue of Newsweek (of all publications) put an exclamation point on pro-choicers’ waning influence, courtesy of some feminist opining (emphasis mine):
This past January, when [NARAL president Nancy] Keenan’s train pulled into Washington’s Union Square, a few blocks from the Capitol, she was greeted by a swarm of anti-abortion-rights activists. It was the 37th March for Life, organized every year on Jan. 22, the anniversary of [Roe v. Wade]. “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young,” Keenan recalled. “There are so many of them, and they are so young.” March for Life estimates it drew 400,000 activists to the Capitol this year. An anti-Stupak rally two months earlier had about 1,300 attendees.
Later in the article, another NARAL’er complains that ultrasounds have “helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being.” Darn that youth and technology!
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Tim C| 5.18.10 @ 3:55PM
Kids aren't stupid. They realize, keenly I would think, that they are the lucky ones and are living proof that abortion takes a human life. Because if they had been legally aborted, they wouldn't be here. Plus they know that their generation is smaller because of legal abortion. It must be very sad to stand in a crowd of your peers and wonder who is missing.
Seek| 5.18.10 @ 4:48PM
There was plenty of abortion in this country while it was illegal -- one just didn't talk about it openly. Roe v. Wade didn't cause abortion; abortion caused Roe v. Wade.
TomSwift| 5.18.10 @ 6:16PM
Before Roe, I think the people who wanted an abortion just went to New York where it was legal.
However, I think forcing them to drive to a liberal state might remind them to use a condom next time.
Ron| 5.19.10 @ 11:24PM
The sad truth is that the claim that tens of thousands of women died due to illegal abortions in the 50's and 60's was an outright lie, propogated by the pro-abortionists. Also, contrary to popular opinion, the most effective method of birth control is the totally natural Billings Method of birth regulation. Follow the money. I don't see either the condom makers or the abortions offering their "services" for free, and they are making big $$ from the promotion of promiscuity and abortion. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood was an anti-black racist and pro-Nazi...yet Blacks have bought into the lie and they face the highest rate of abortion.
Nobama| 5.18.10 @ 6:30PM
Liberals caused Roe v Wade and the resultant 50 million dead babies.
The results of this poll do not surprise me; the younger generations know that abortion has killed 1 out of 3 of them.
ITFossil| 5.19.10 @ 10:50PM
Nobama:
Since you have the statistics handy, last year:
How many babies in the world were killed by starvation?
How many babies in the world were killed by miscarriage?
How many babies in the world were killed by war?
How many babies in the world were killed by disease?
(Hint: If you really want to save babies, make sure that they and their families have clean drinking water, good sanitation and a reliable food supply.)
If you don't start with that, then all you have is a bunch of paternalistic, churchy poutrage).
As far as I can tell, the standard issue female comes equipped with around +300 viable eggs.
That makes the fertile mother FAR more important than any individual fetus. Let those with internal reproductive plumbing make their own choices. They are the majority in this country. If you possess external reproductive plumbing, please just shut up. Women no longer need your rules, they'll decide for themselves.
Nobama| 5.20.10 @ 2:28PM
Twist it, turn it and shake it all around--anything to salve your conscience, right Old Fossil? You and your heartless Leftist ilk are still to blame for 50 million dead babies--regardless of the BS you spew. Lucky for you that dear old mom was pro-life.
It doesn't matter what I think--it only matters what God thinks--and you will find that out on your Judgment Day. Good luck with that.
Young and pro-choice| 5.20.10 @ 3:47PM
Fetuses are not babies.
And you are appealing to interests to make your argument. Standard anti-abortion kook-wing tactic.
Nick| 5.20.10 @ 7:18PM
Fetus is Latin for unborn baby, brainiac.
Nobama| 5.20.10 @ 10:39PM
Yeah, nothing "kooky" about killing babies; you're not even human, Young and stupid.
Teflon93| 5.18.10 @ 6:00PM
They are so many because so few Baby Boomers had children, and the ones they had were few in number. Pro-life families, not surprisingly, value children and have more of them.
The Boomers are beginning to reap what they have sown.
Nobama| 5.18.10 @ 6:38PM
Wishful thinking on your part, Sir. We are all complicit, not just the Boomers, and we shall all reap the whirlwind.
c. j. acworth| 5.18.10 @ 6:44PM
I seem to remember reading an article somewhere a while back (maybe on AMSPEC?) to the effect that liberals are aborting themselves out of existance. The theory was that liberals are more likely to abort than conservatives, as well as having smaller families when they do procreate. Since kids tend to absorb the values of their parents, the upcoming generation should be more consevative. Don't know if I believe it, but it's an interesting theory.
Nobama| 5.19.10 @ 3:15PM
Keep telling yourself that lie, Holland--maybe some day even YOU will believe it.
ITFossil| 5.19.10 @ 10:56PM
c.j.:
Demographics suggest that the US will be majority Hispanic sometime between 2040 and 2050. Hispanics do indeed have larger families, and they are predominantly Roman Catholic. A shift toward conservatism is likely.
Christopher Holland| 5.19.10 @ 12:06AM
More like there are no reapers because there has been no sowing
Nick| 5.19.10 @ 12:28AM
Mr. Holland,
There has actually been TOO much "sowing."
When life begins to grow, liberals go in an rip it out.
If the life takes root and survives, liberals won't cultivate it. They leave it on it's own, to live among the weeds.
Missy| 5.19.10 @ 1:29AM
Holland, smile! Your mom was pro-life.
PCC| 5.18.10 @ 7:20PM
Prior to Roe vs. Wade, as I understand it, via laws in the individual states, the country was heading toward a rough consensus of legalized abortion in the first trimester only, with some state-by-state variations, of course. Would that have been so bad? Even today?
tonypal| 5.18.10 @ 8:07PM
Had we continued on the path you describe, I believe a significant portion of the contentiousness we have in the political arena would be diminished. Roe v. Wade must be overturned, if for no other reason than to affirm the proper role of the courts - interpreting laws, not creating them.
The American people, Obama-zombies excluded, do not like things being forced upon them. We prefer to allow our elected officials to craft legislation that reflects our values. Sometimes they get it wrong, but legislation and poor electoral choices can be corrected.
On the other hand, when unelected law school grads (the Supreme Court) disregard the concept of checks and balances, instead usurping the role of elected legislators in order to impose their own personal views on the American people, great anger and discord ensues.
hmm_contrib| 5.18.10 @ 8:35PM
Did anyone look at the actual numbers? The CNS "news" site sails over it as well, but...
Those 18-29 year olds who think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances went from 15% from 95-99 to 23% in 05-09. We've gone from about a sixth to just under a fourth. Movement, yes, but I'm not sure this changes the game.
Missy| 5.19.10 @ 1:26AM
Of the 18-29 year olds questioned; 23% think abortion should be illegal at all times.
51% think abortion should be legal only under certain circumstances.
That means 3/4 of their generation have serious doubts about abortion, which is a real switch from the generations just before them. That looks like a real game-changer.
I like the trend toward life! God bless these kids.
JmsA| 5.19.10 @ 12:59AM
Any good news regarding rolling back the monstrosity that is on-demand abortion is welcome news. That this country has allowed more than 40 million helpless souls be exterminated is simply unconscionable.
gran torino| 5.19.10 @ 2:31AM
The CHOICE was having unprotected sex.
dasboot| 5.19.10 @ 11:07AM
I just hope most of the abortion victims would have grown up to be liberals. I wish more of the current administrations' mothers had made a different 'choice.'
Walter| 5.19.10 @ 3:53PM
I think that a problem that the pro-abortion position has is that science makes it more obsolete every day. Every thought put forward in the 60's and 70's about what the fetus is, what it feels during an abortion, its viability outside the womb and when it becomes a person with certain inalienable rights has been trashed by medical advances in the area of reproduction. Likewise, it is difficult to fall back on the "life worth living" position, given that motto's connection with Nazi eugenics. Perhaps another factor (an unexpected consequence) is the trend of many young women having children out of wedlock (rather than go the abortion route) to whom abortion is no longer a debating point but a real personal issue. And, finally, (another unintended consequence) the risk of death in childbirth has been almost wiped out by our legalistic society, where ob's would rather turn away a patient, perform a Caesarian or quit the field than risk the personal and financial consequences of a risky birth.
ITFossil| 5.19.10 @ 11:05PM
...23 percent of Americans 18 to 29 years old said they believed abortion should be illegal in all circumstances,
while 51 percent said it should be legal only under certain circumstances, and 24 percent said it should be legal under all circumstances.
Uhoh... their arithmetic says that 75 percent favor choice.
Nobama| 5.20.10 @ 2:33PM
Killing babies makes you feel all warm and tingly inside, doesn't it, creep? Spin it however you like but the truth is abortion is becoming more objectionable due to cutting-edge ultrasound technology. The youngsters know that people like you have slaughtered 1/3 of their generation.
Crawl back under the slimy rock you call home.
ITFossil| 5.21.10 @ 4:44PM
Nobama:
No, but based on your florid and quite incorrect assessment of my position, you seem to be the one getting all warm and tingly inside.
Let me try and clear this up for you.
Women don't get abortions for fun and pleasure. Women don't get abortions because they're bored.
Women don't get abortions for convenience.
Women don't get abortions because abortions were on-sale that day.
***Women don't stop having children because they've terminated a pregnancy. They stop when the number of children they CHOOSE to have roughly meets their ability to raise them.***
(Based on your posts, you seem to have some difficulty comprehending that idea. You might want to read it a few times and let it sink in.)
The primary drivers for terminating an unwanted pregnancy are usually economic and in many of those cases, women don't believe or trust that the father will stay around to do the hard work of raising his family. Perhaps if you worked to address those concerns the abortion rate would drop all on it's own.
You apparently favor the idea of 50 million (your number) unwanted children because you love the idea of denying women the freedom to choose.
Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen where they belong, right?
BTW, the rock I call home isn't slimy, in fact it's very clean, dry and comfortable. Thanks for your concern though.
Nobama| 5.22.10 @ 1:06AM
Some of us have a conscience, clown; obviously, you don't. You're a smug, self-satisfied worm, too.
Don't lecture me about helping unwed mothers--I've spent my life working on their behalf. It's easy to shoot off your big, fat mouth when you've done nothing to help those who suffer from rabid pro-abortion beliefs like yours.
Barbaric ignorance like yours isn't bliss; it's fatal, and that rock you call home is dark and cold like your very tiny heart.
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