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To: Tammy8

I’ve noticed the same thing.

My daughters friends, even the liberal ones, oppose abortion.

These are millennials.


23 posted on 08/29/2018 9:29:21 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: metmom
.....These are millennials.

These are SINNERS.

28 posted on 08/29/2018 9:40:42 AM PDT by Ron H. (Pray unceasingly - 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
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To: metmom; Tammy8
I’ve noticed the same thing. My daughters friends, even the liberal ones, oppose abortion. These are millennials.

The rationales for abortion put forth by the second-wave feminists in the 60s have largely disappeared. Prior to the legalization of access to birth control for the unmarried in the early 60s, families still were humiliated and shamed by extramarital pregnancy of a daughter and were sometimes rejecting and punitive. Social remedies then were "sending her away" and having the child adopted to an unknown couple, forcing an early marriage on teenagers, or the parents of the pregnant girl raising the child as their own. For older women who became pregnant, they would usually have to leave work as soon as they began showing, whether married or not; so for an unmarried woman, there would be no way to support herself and the child. Single women raising children were shunned and shamed, and the children labeled "bastard" and "illegitimate." And illegal abortions were often quite dangerous and unsanitary. For these reasons, the feminists wanted access to "safe, legal and rare" abortion.

Seventy years into the so-called "sexual revolution", society has moved past most of these conditions, so young women do not feel the same urgency to take drastic steps. Many young people don't bother to be married or even to know the other person well before having unprotected sex. Employers are enjoined from firing women outright for pregnancy and must give pregnancy leave. And from what we read, abortion faciities are not always sanitary or safe, either; but the pc brainwashing has convinced many irresponsible women otherwise.

Who wouldn't want to see a world in which all children are wanted, lovingly anticipated by both parents and prepared for? Unfortunately, unwanted pregnancies will always be with us. Adoption is sometimes the kindest and most humane option, but even there, the agencies are under great lib/prog pressure to favor adoption by LGBT's and singles—and in UK, Christians are disfavored because of their "religious extremism." In this country, activists have passed laws in various localities insisting that prospective parents allow their adopted child to choose his/her own gender, religion, etc. The far neediest group of children are black, but race separatists object to white families adopting African-American kids. Young women who have tried to have their child placed with married heterosexuals of the same religion are often subjected to punitive and spiteful placement of their child with just the opposite kind of adoptive person(s). The same holds true in divorce when one partner has "discovered" their "gay identity"—the heterosexual partner has no right to prevent their biological child from being thrust into joint custody with daddy's boyfriend or mommy's girlfriend.

We must pray for our whole society to be freed from this pc tyranny against Christianity.

45 posted on 08/31/2018 7:40:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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