Seems the point of the story is that contrary to what the Supreme Court of Fools might say most human beings find the above intuitively obvious. Who'd have thunk it.
“one in three 13 to 17 year olds think abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.”
This is a group who know how close THEY came.
They have had siblings aborted and mothers who are “open and honest” and tell them about it.
I admit being addicted to Discovery Health. But I know there are a lot of women of all ages who are also. I can tell from the commercials who watches the shows about high risk pregnancies. They almost always show ultra shounds, the new 4 dimensional ones and often have the photo of the baby’s hand coming out the incision while the doctor is fixing the heart, removing the tumor or whatever. The more of that we see, the stronger the message of life in this culture.
There may also be a growing realization that this “population control” practice has also diminished the pool of citizens (and voters) who were to make up the next generation. As one of the unintended consequences, there has been an inrush of immigrants (legal and illegal) to fill this vacuum, to supply the workforce that was never born and grew to maturity.
And there was also the elimination of a large part of the pool of potential voters with certain biases. Those who would agree to abort a preterm infant, also shared a lot of other notions about freedom from the strictures of organized religion, and the perfectability of man. As the old believers died off, there was no cohort coming up to replace them, and their numbers inevitably shrank.
Parents who turn to abortion end up having no one to carry their genes, and their behavior patterns, into the next generation. A sort of social Darwinism.
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. Otherwise, TANSTAAFL.
I am old enough to have
actually taken the Hippocratic Oath
...
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art...
Doctors who do abortions are an abomination
The decrease in abortions is great news for Tuesday’s annual pro-life March On Washington.
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On the matter of trying to win hearts and minds, as this writer suggests, we can - and are - doing that. She mentions the movie “Juno”. I offer “A Dream A Lot Like Mine” at http://www.myspace.com/emmettgrayson. I hope folks will click and listen.
I think the internet may have some impact. Most kids have access to it and can easily find sites that show the development of the child, making it more of a person than a glob of tissue.
I think that the Townhall people need to spend some time in FreeRepublic.
This post (<-click) in FreeRepublic attempts to show some serious corruption in the Supreme Court where the Court's scandalous ignoring of the 10th A. protected power of the states is concerned. The post explains how FDR's 10th A.-ignoring establishment of constitutionally unauthorized New Deal programs ultimately led to the Court's scandalous legalization of abortion. Note that the post gives two non-abortion USSC case examples in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different perspective.
Anybody who feels inclined to comment about the above referenced post, please do so in this thread.