The bell rang and the eighth graders jumped up, eager to compare notes.
“I named my baby Kyle Patrick,” one shouted.
“Mine is Antonio!”
At the urging of an antiabortion activist, they had each pledged to “spiritually adopt” a fetus developing in an unknown woman — to name it, love it from afar and above all, pray daily that the mother-to-be would not choose abortion.
“Maybe one day you’ll get to heaven and these people will come running to you . . . and say, ‘We’re all the little children you saved,’ ” activist Cristina Barba said. She smiled at the students in their Catholic school uniforms. “Maybe you really can make a difference.”
Thirty-five years after Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, opponents are pouring resources into building new generations of activists. Young people are responding with passion.
Today’s students and young adults have grown up in a time when abortion was widely accessible and acceptable, and a striking number are determined to end that era.
Pew Research Center polls dating back a decade show that 18- to 29-year-olds are consistently more likely than the general adult population to favor strict limits on abortion. A Pew survey over the summer found 22% of young adults support a total ban on abortion, compared with 15% of their parents’ generation.
Looking specifically at teens, a Gallup survey in 2003 found that 72% called abortion morally wrong, and 32% believed it should be illegal in all circumstances. Among adults surveyed that year, only 17% backed a total ban.
And where are abortion-supporters’ [i] new generations [/i] ?
Check the dumpsters behind the clinics.
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There is no doubt we will see continued shifts as the next generation emerges and questions the “wisdom” of those who go before them. How ironic that ECUSA/TEC in an effort to be ‘relevant’ is pushing an agenda that will be viewed with horror in twenty years!
The most aborted generation in history seems to be aware of their missing brothers and sisters and is hoping for better things for the generations that follow.
Heartbreaking quote from the LifeNews.com story:
“Some of these kids know a member of the family is missing,” [Olivia Gans, president of the Virginia Society for Human Life] told the Richmond Times Dispatch. “They know they would have been the second child not the first child in their family because of an abortion Mom and Dad had.”