Found this over at Christianity Today:
70% Evangelicals 18-29 who favor “making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion.”
55% Evangelicals 30 and older who favor this.
(Source: Pew Research Center)
Even with the less than favorable wording of the poll question, young Christians are overwhelmingly pro-life.
Good for your generation!
good on u guys!!!
Wow. Ok, forget half of the bad things I’ve said about young people.
I’m not surprised, it shows hope for our future!
Well, I’m not Christian, but I see a lot of this with our generation, and the group about 10 years behind me. During the ’60s, it was very true that a woman had few options if she were pregnant, and even fewer options to not get pregnant in the first place. Now, we recognise not only that abortion doesn’t solve any problem for her, but we give woman real choices. This is not 1958. There is contraception galore, equality statutes which prohibit discrimination against pregnant women, WIC, Medicaid… heck, my fingers would fall off my hands before I finished typing up everything we do for pregnant women now.
…and it hasn’t made a dent in the abortion rate. I think that the younger generation sees this and acknowledges that there comes a time when you just have to say, “Take responsibility for yourself; you have the tools to do so.”
In many ways, the current teenagers are really seeing the fallout from the 1970s free love theory. Divorce, unwed motherhood, the feminisation of poverty, rampant STDs despite condoms everywhere, destruction of young people’s psyches from early intercourse - again, fingers would fall off if typed it all up - and they are shifting to the right.
Apparently, we really did need to test civilisation to see if it was really worthwhile. Sigh.
70% Evangelicals 18-29 who favor “making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion.”
Thi means 30% don’t. I find that amazing amoung “Christians” …….steve
Steve, you make a really good (and depressing) point. It is disappointing that evil truly has become perceived as good to some people, but I’m not surprised.