Very interesting stats from Gallup:
Two important changes are apparent. One is a significant drop in the percentage of seniors saying all abortions should be illegal. This fell from 32% in the earliest years of the trend to 16% in the first half of the 1990s, but has since rebounded somewhat to 21%. This long-term 11-point decline among seniors compares with a 9-point increase—from 14% to 23%—in support for the “illegal in all circumstances” position among 18- to 29-year-olds since the early 1990s.
As a result, 18- to 29-year-olds are now roughly tied with seniors as the most likely of all age groups to hold this position on abortion—although all four groups are fairly close in their views. This is a sharp change from the late 1970s, when seniors were substantially more likely than younger age groups to want abortion to be illegal.
This shift was evidenced at this year’s March for Life. 18-to-29-year-olds looked like the primary demographic marching. These young people see themselves as survivors of Roe v. Wade. They are very cognizant of the fact that one third of their generation has disappeared as victims of abortion.
I think sonograms help too.
Most of the younger folks’ first ‘baby picture’ was taken while they were in the womb.
Think you’re right about the sonograms. My daughter, who’s pregnant with her third child, just had her ultrasound and emailed us a copy. I wish every girl or woman who considers an abortion would have one before deciding to kill her baby. It doesn’t seem to me that she could go through with it, but then again, I don’t see how a woman can feel the baby move inside her and then kill it, but they do.
Other good news in Washington - Room 219 of the House of Representatives has been dedicated for prayer and some of our elected officials are praying for our country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WnSq-PEGQA&feature=player_embedded
Randy Forbes, the Representative (R/VA) in this video, is Pro-Life.
Here is his voting record: http://ontheissues.org/VA/Randy_Forbes.htm
Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Forbes