Comments on: Oh the Horror! Our Kids Think Abortion is Wrong! http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/ Standing in the Gap in a Society that's Warring with God. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: MInTheGap http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-75602 MInTheGap Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:34:58 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/#comment-75602 Right on, Anna. I'm certain that we will look back one day and see that it was really the pro-choice people that are like the pro-slavery people of old. And that will be sad, but the day is coming. Right on, Anna. I’m certain that we will look back one day and see that it was really the pro-choice people that are like the pro-slavery people of old. And that will be sad, but the day is coming.

]]> By: Anna S http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-75601 Anna S Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:30:14 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/#comment-75601 There are a lot of myths about the pro-life movement: that we are extremists, that we are unconcerned about the well-being of women... it takes lots of good hard work to get over them, but I believe it will be done in the end! There are a lot of myths about the pro-life movement: that we are extremists, that we are unconcerned about the well-being of women… it takes lots of good hard work to get over them, but I believe it will be done in the end!

]]> By: MInTheGap http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-75600 MInTheGap Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:58:28 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/#comment-75600 Like Tracker said, the more the culture around people seems to change the more the peer pressure will change. People don't like being in the minority. They don't like being wrong. So, I think it's possible to change if people are not afraid to stand on conviction. Like Tracker said, the more the culture around people seems to change the more the peer pressure will change. People don’t like being in the minority. They don’t like being wrong. So, I think it’s possible to change if people are not afraid to stand on conviction.

]]> By: Mary http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-75580 Mary Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:53:29 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/#comment-75580 Great take on it Tracker! I guess big families of the quiverfull mindset may swing the pendulum even further, even faster! MIn, as far as the question of feminism and morality goes, if you're right, and I hope you are, then it makes each individual's potential for influencing change that much more crucial. Great take on it Tracker! I guess big families of the quiverfull mindset may swing the pendulum even further, even faster!

MIn, as far as the question of feminism and morality goes, if you’re right, and I hope you are, then it makes each individual’s potential for influencing change that much more crucial.

]]> By: Ad Tracker http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-75570 Ad Tracker Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:47:14 +0000 http://www.minthegap.com/2007/08/10/oh-the-horror-our-kids-think-abortion-is-wrong/#comment-75570 James Tarranto, the editor of opinionjournal.com and author of BestOfTheWebToday blog, has a theory on this that I tend to subscribe to as a contibuting factor in this societal change. He calls his theory "The Roe Effect" and it goes like this: Children have a reasonably high likelyhood of sharing the moral and political views of their parents when they reach adulthood. That being said, pro-abortion parents are much more likely to abort their children to the tune of several million since Roe v Wade, while pro-life parents have aborted almost none of their children during the same period. The children born since Roe v Wade became law have recently begun reaching the age of adulthood. As time passes and the number of probable pro-abortion children aren't born because they were aborted grows, the pendulum swings further. I think the facts you mentioned in your article contribute as well. We also can't discount the peer presure apsect either. If a young person has fewer radical pro-abortion peers they are more likely to feel more comfortable expressing a more moderate to pro-life position. I'm glad my parents were pro-life :) Just my take on it. - Tracker James Tarranto, the editor of opinionjournal.com and author of BestOfTheWebToday blog, has a theory on this that I tend to subscribe to as a contibuting factor in this societal change.

He calls his theory “The Roe Effect” and it goes like this:

Children have a reasonably high likelyhood of sharing the moral and political views of their parents when they reach adulthood.

That being said, pro-abortion parents are much more likely to abort their children to the tune of several million since Roe v Wade, while pro-life parents have aborted almost none of their children during the same period.

The children born since Roe v Wade became law have recently begun reaching the age of adulthood. As time passes and the number of probable pro-abortion children aren’t born because they were aborted grows, the pendulum swings further.

I think the facts you mentioned in your article contribute as well. We also can’t discount the peer presure apsect either. If a young person has fewer radical pro-abortion peers they are more likely to feel more comfortable expressing a more moderate to pro-life position.

I’m glad my parents were pro-life :)

Just my take on it. - Tracker

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